Subject: Why To: and not From: posting to newsgroup?

From: "Richard P. O'Sullivan" <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 14 Nov 1995 07:23:08 -0500

I have noticed that sending a message 'To:' someone and posting  
it to a newsgroup at the same time cause the newsgroup item to show the 
'To:' address rather than the 'From:' address?  This looks funny.  Is 
this a feature or a fluke?

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From: Paul O Bartlett <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 14 Nov 1995 12:35:33 -0500

> this a feature or a fluke?

    For good or for ill, it's the way Pine works.

Paul
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From: Steve Hubert <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 15 Nov 1995 21:56:03 -0800 (PST)

>     For good or for ill, it's the way Pine works.

It's not just for news that it does that.  Whenever you are reading a
message that you sent it will show the recipient (To) instead of showing
that you sent it.  This was thought to be more useful.  In 3.92 you'll be
able to make it always show From if you prefer that.

Steve Hubert <[email-masked]>
Networks and Distributed Computing, Univ. of Washington, Seattle

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From: [email-masked] (Robert Laws)
Date: 20 Nov 1995 08:47:23 GMT

I use Pine from a dial-in e-mail provider.  It is running on a UNIX 
machine.  I'd like to edit my .signature file but I cannot find
any way to do this; when I exit from Pine my dial-in session is 
terminated. 

Can I start vi, for instance, from within Pine?  

Thanks

Robert

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From: Paul O Bartlett <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 20 Nov 1995 11:51:09 -0500

> Can I start vi, for instance, from within Pine?  

    It may depend on how Pine is configured for your system.  You might 
try entering Ctrl-Z from within Pine.  If your Pine is configured to 
allow this, Pine will be suspended and put in the background, putting you 
at your Unix shell prompt.  Then you can use vi to edit whatever you 
want.  To resume Pine, just enter 'fg' at the shell prompt.  As for using 
vi from _within_ Pine, you can do this for editing original messages and 
replies, but I'm not sure you can do it to edit an "independent" file.

Paul

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From: [email-masked]
Date: Mon, 20 Nov 1995 20:45:16 +0100 (MET)

Hi Robert,

if you go from the (M)ain Menu to (S)etup and choose (C)onfig you can set an alternative editor.

Oops, that was the second part of your question:-)

You can always fake an editor by replying to any email you have and calling the external editor
(I'm sorry, I've made pico my standard, but there is a ^something for this, look at the command-list
at the bottom).

Once your in, delete all text, write your .forward text and save the actual file as .forward
(When leaving the editor, make sure *NOT* to send the file!)

BUT: You must have a home-directory on the providers system, which is NOT common! So check this out.

Ciao,
 Michael

> Can I start vi, for instance, from within Pine?  

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From: Simon <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 22 Nov 1995 15:31:30 +0000

I guess you could fake it. Start composing, get into vi (if you're not
already in it) via the alternate-editor command, and then use ":edit
<file>"...

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On Mon, 20 Nov 1995, Paul O Bartlett wrote:

> As for using vi from _within_ Pine, you can do this for editing original
> messages and replies, but I'm not sure you can do it to edit an
> "independent" file.

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From: Sven Guckes <[email-masked]>
Date: 28 Nov 95 15:22:10 GMT

[email-masked] (Robert Laws) writes:
>I use Pine from a dial-in e-mail provider.  It is running on a UNIX machine.
>I'd like to edit my .signature file but I cannot find any way to do this;
>when I exit from Pine my dial-in session is terminated. 

General idea:
If you don't have a shell to invoke the editor from then start composing a
mail so you'll get into the editor.  Almost every editor allows to switch to
another file for editing.  So simply switch to your signature file, edit,
and return to the previous file.  Do not mail the temporary file, though.  ;-)

Then again, if you don't have a shell then you might not even have a home
directory and thus no space for personal data, ie no signature file.
Btw, you don't need to have one to send mail.  It is NOT required.
You CAN live without a signature.  Trust me!

Sven

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