Stephan, what is happening is the news readers are using the default domain
on your computer which is 'localhost'. In your preferences for them it should want to
know what your username for your email is and what the domain is. The path with the
exclamation point is what is called a 'bang' path
I have just switched over to xrn as my news reader, but I had been using
K-news (and before that X-News under Windows :^). Both news readers think
my e-mail is login@localhost. How do I change this to my correct e-mail
address? (And I don't want to re-type it every time I'm going to sen