Subject: Setting Distribution?

From: Zach Robinson <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 12 May 1995 03:18:57 -0700 (PDT)

Pine gurus-

	I use Pine 3.91 for a lot of my computing needs, including 
posting to newsgroups.
	My concern is how to set the special posting fields such as 
Distribution.
	I am fairly certain that this is not available within the 
header.  Is it possible to insert these fields within the body of the 
text and have them still function normally (which I, admittedly, would 
probably classify as a bug), or am I just out of luck until the next 
version of Pine is released?

Thank you for your response.

	-Zach Robinson

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From: Mike Brudenell <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 12 May 1995 11:54:45 +0100 (BST)

No, the heeader lines must be specified in the message header, not the 
message body text.

However all you have to do is add any special headers you want in Pine 
3.91's Setup Configuration menu (S then C from the main menu).  Look for 
the  "customized-hdrs" item.  Here you can set one or more additional 
header fields and, if you wish, a default value to set them to.

You don't normally see these additional header lines when composing a 
message (but they are there).  To see them place the cursor up in the 
message header area and type Ctrl/R to see the "Rich Header".

Note that any header lines you add with default values will almost 
certianly (can't say definitely as I haven't tried it) be used when 
sending either News or e-mail messages.  I tend to just define the header 
line but omit any default value (so the line is omitted from the message 
sent unless you explicitly set a value when composing by Ctrl/R then 
typing in a value).

Mike Brudenell                                               <[email-masked]>
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