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Re: Two users - one PC
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lugnet.admin.general
Date: 
Mon, 8 Nov 1999 23:55:17 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Marcus Fischer Mellbin writes:
[...] The problem is that my son and I seem to have to share the same user
ID as it seems Lugnet can only access one cookie at a time. I *hate*
posting under Marcus' name and he refuses to post under mine (!) Is there
a solution to this ?

Not yet, no.  Not directly anyway.


I imagine one solution would be for me to change the cookie each time I
wanted to post a message (to mine), however then I need to know more about
the way Lugnet uses its cookies and where they are stored.

Your best bet would be, as JeremyS suggested, to use Navigator with its
multiple profile feature, or to use a real newsreader (like Forte Free Agent
or Microplanet Gravity, for example) when accessing the groups, instead of
the web interface.  Me, I've got two installations of Agent, one for LUGNET
and one for RTL.  Hardly takes up any extra disk space.

--Todd



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  Re: Two users - one PC
 
(...) For Agent you don't even need two installations, you can use one installation and different folders for each site. Here's how I did it: Under your agent directory create two directories (mine are RTL and Lugnet). Then create two shortcuts to (...) (25 years ago, 9-Nov-99, to lugnet.admin.general)

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  Two users - one PC
 
Dear Todd, I posted the following message some time ago, but never got any answer. The problem is that my son and I seem to have to share the same user ID as it seems Lugnet can only access one cookie at a time. I *hate* posting under Marcus' name (...) (25 years ago, 8-Nov-99, to lugnet.admin.general)

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