Subject: Re: Problem posting to mailling lists

From: All About Marilyn <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 22 Mar 1995 21:39:26 -0800 (PST)

To All,

I (a novice at Unix) ran into a similar problem when I wanted to download
to my Mac a folder containing a specific set of mail, all from one
in-house group that followed a particular thread. Even though I included
myself in the distribution list and so automatically saved mail (via
procmail) into a particular folder, it showed "To: ..." rather than
"From..." My workaround was: 

   I simply went into "vi" and used the "replace" command to change
   "<Roman Hryniszak>" to <Magic          > and "rhrynisz" to "       " This
   made pine NOT recognize it as mail from me, and it changed my real name
   to my nickname, with the result being that the index said "From: Magic"
   rather than "To:..."

My original thought was to have one of the group bounce all my messages
back to me (how come the "Apply" command DOES NOT include "bounce"???),
but that didn't work, even AFTER I stripped out out the "Resent" lines
with grep. Fortunately, though, my little workaround fixes everything I
want done.

Hope this helped???

Roman

[email-masked]  [can't send mail from this address right now
                               (see previous cry for help), so sending 
                               from my netcom account]

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

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