Subject: Problem posting to mailling lists

From: Michael Pollak <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 1995 20:50:10 -0500

For some reason, when I post to a mailing list, my name gets screwed up 
in the index.  Instead of

23  Michael Pollak      Subject

like you'd normally get, I get

23 To: badsubjects      Subject

Why is the "To:" line where the "From" line should be?  It's never 
happened to me on usenet.  Has anyone else run into this problem and 
figured out the solution?  Many thanks.

__________________________________________________________________________
Michael Pollak................New York [email-masked]

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From: Michael Pollak <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 21 Mar 1995 15:27:00 -0500

Egad! Is this ever useful?  And is there any way around it?  Or do I 
simply have to use some other program when I'm posting to mailing lists?

On Tue, 21 Mar 1995, Selcuk Ozturk wrote:

> This is not a bug but, a feature. Pine sees that the mail is from
> yourself and thinks that From: information is not that interesting
> anymore. Instead, the To: info is more important. So, it shows that.
> 
> # From: Michael Pollak <[email-masked]>
> # Newsgroups: comp.mail.pine
> # Subject: Problem posting to mailling lists
> # Date: Mon, 20 Mar 1995 20:50:10 -0500
> # 
> # 
> # For some reason, when I post to a mailing list, my name gets screwed up 
> # in the index.  Instead of
> # 
> # 23  Michael Pollak      Subject
> # 
> # like you'd normally get, I get
> # 
> # 23 To: badsubjects      Subject
> # 
> # Why is the "To:" line where the "From" line should be?  It's never 
> # happened to me on usenet.  Has anyone else run into this problem and 
> # figured out the solution?  Many thanks.
> # 
> # __________________________________________________________________________
> # Michael Pollak................New York [email-masked]
> # 
> # 
> # 
> 
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Selcuk Ozturk
> Economics Department         e-mail: [email-masked]
> University Of Pittsburgh     http://ftp.econ.pitt.edu/selcuk/welcome.html
> 
>

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From: Terry Gray <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 21 Mar 1995 22:44:31 -0800 (PST)

Michael, 
This behavior has nothing to do with posting, it's just the way Pine
displays the index of the messages you are *reading*... 

As Selcuk said, Pine figures you already know what your own name is, so when
a message in the Index is from you, it displays the *recipient* name in 
the index instead of your name. 

(If you get a different result using another program to post it's only
because that other program uses a different form of your name, so Pine
doesn't recognize the message as from you.)

-teg

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From: Selcuk Ozturk <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 21 Mar 1995 08:43:51 EST