Subject: Re: Money for ISP who can answer this question

From: [email-masked] (Clint Danbury)
Date: 3 May 1996 00:21:12 GMT

Jon Trulson ([email-masked]) wrote:
: 
: 	If that's the case... then why don't you simply set your 
: TIN_DOMAIN environment value to ssnShirt.com?  Like
: 
: TIN_DOMAIN=ssnShirt.com
: export TIN_DOMAIN
: 
: 	Then run tin...
: 

Ok Jon, I have just taken your advice I typed...

	set TIN_DOMAIN=ssnShirt.com
	export TIN_DOMAIN
	tin

So, next day I'll find out if your advice works 
in real life.  Also, if you're an ISP and can 
give me a local connection, and this idea of 
yours works, drop me some email and we'll 
talk money.

.

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From: [email-masked] (Clint Danbury)
Date: 10 May 1996 14:51:34 GMT

Ok, I cannot post to a newsgroup from pine.
Here is what happens.

I type

        alt.test

in the "to:" field of pine.

I press the <Enter> key.

Then...

         [email-masked]

appears in that same field.  The
final result is that pine gets
mad at me and says...

    [Mail not sent: <[email-masked]>... User unknown]

in the .pinerc file thiere are these two lines...

-----------------------snip--begin--here-------------------------

# Sets domain part of From: and local addresses in outgoing mail.
user-domain=

-----------------------snip--end--here---------------------------

So I set it to...

        user-domain=ssnShirt.com

Then I try to post to alt.test, and instead of

        [email-masked]

appearing in the "to:" field as it did when the field
was empty, I get

        [email-masked]

appearing in the "To:" field.  Therefore, I must be
disobeying the 847th commandment carved in some unix
tablets which were given upon the mountain.

So I took the line out.  The machine behaved the exact
same as it did before.

I really don't care if the name of the program is PINE,
nn, tin, MyGrandmother, or what.

What I want to do is to post usenet News messages with
the string "[email-masked]" (no quotes) in the
"from:" and "reply-to:" fields of the message header.

Question: what magic word(s) do I place in what magic
field(s) of what magic file(s) located in what magic
place(s) so that "[email-masked]" (no quotes)
will appear in the "From:" and "Reply To:" fields of
usenet posted messages ?

Thanks
Clint
[email-masked]

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From: Paul O Bartlett <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 10 May 1996 22:19:36 -0400

> in the "to:" field of pine.

    Here's your mistake RIGHT HERE.  When you use Pine to post to a
newsgroup, you do NOT put the name is the To: field, as you would with
email.  You put it in the Newsgroups: field, and if that field is not
showing, you press ^R (for "Rich Headers") to get it.  If you put the
nerwsgroups name in the To: field, Pine will treat it as if you are
trying to send email, not post to a newsgroup.  Use the correct header
field, or you will get garbage results, as you have already found out.

[much omitted]

>                                Therefore, I must be

    Unix has nothing to do with it in this case.  It's learning
how to use Pine correctly in the first place to do basic tasks.

> [...]

Paul                             <[email-masked]>
----------------------------------------------------------
Paul O. Bartlett, P.O. Box 857, Vienna, VA 22183-0857, USA
Finger, keyserver, or WWW for PGP 2.6.2 public key 
Home Page:  URL: http://www.access.digex.net/~pobart

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From: David L Miller <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 10 May 1996 10:33:45 -0700

You need to list newsgroups in the Newsgroups: header (abbreviated
Newsgrps: in the composer), not the To: header!  Press ^R in the
headers if you don't see the Newsgrps: line.

--DLM

P.S.  Make sure you have nntp-server set in Setup/Config...

|\ |  |\/|  David L. Miller    [email-masked]  (206) 685-6240
|/ |_ |  |  Software Engineer, Pine Development Team   (206) 685-4045 (FAX)
University of Washington, Networks & Distributed Computing, JE-20
4545 15th Ave NE, Seattle WA 98105, USA

On 10 May 1996, Clint Danbury wrote:

> From: Clint Danbury <[email-masked]>
> Newsgroups: comp.mail.pine
> Subject: Re: Money for ISP who can answer this question
> Date: 10 May 1996 14:51:34 GMT
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> Message-ID: <[email-masked]>
> References: <[email-masked]> <[email-masked]> <[email-masked]> <[email-masked]>
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> X-Newsreader: NN version 6.5.0 #14 (NOV)
>