how do I change the name

[Tommy Glassford]

I'm sharing a flat and presently the same computer. I joined Virgin and I'm
able to get mail etc. I got a list of their newsgroups that I wanted to
subscribe to and sent some postings. The responses i got were very helpful
but the name that is given is who I'm sharing with and the email address is
an old Freeserve account that he had ages ago and had to stop using due to
spam. He joined Freeserve again the day before I joined Virgin.

I'm using Outlook. How do I get the newsgroups that I'm subscribing to to
use my own name which I've given to Virgin? And why did i get a helpful
reply from someone but her reply is headed responding to joebloggsat etc,
when the person I'mn sharing with is called joebloggs. in fact this posting
will be going out probably in his name and it'll be his old freeserve
address.

Can someone help me please because I do have a name. But it'll get really
confusing for the two of us later on if we don't sort this out right now.

 

[Brian Tillman]

I'm using Outlook. How do I get the newsgroups that I'm subscribing
to to use my own name which I've given to Virgin?

You're actually using Outlook Express to read news.

Click Tools>Accounts and select the News tab. Select the news account and
click "Properties". Change the value of "Email Address" to be whatever you
want. That's the address that will show up in the news message.