Subject: Re: inconsistency in pine index for news

From: Mark Crispin <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 8 May 1996 20:19:20 -0700

On 8 May 1996, Doug O'Neal wrote:
> We just upgraded to pine 3.93 on an SGI running Irix 5.3 and I'm now
> getting complaints about how pine handles the index of a newsgroup.  As
> an example, I sent a couple of messages to our test newsgroup.  When I
              ^^^^^^                                              ^^^^^^
This is significant.  See below.

> enter the newsgroup, the index shows this:
> 
>       1 May  8 To: jhu.test          ignore this test
>       2 May  8 Doug O'Neal           ignore
> 
> Message #1 has the headers
>     Path: news.jhu.edu!jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu!doug
>     From: Douglas O'Neal <[email-masked]>
>     Newsgroups: jhu.test
>     Subject: ignore this test
>     ...
> and message #1 has
>     Path: news.jhu.edu!grinch.hcf.jhu.edu!root
>     From: [email-masked] (Doug O'Neal)
>     Newsgroups: jhu.test
>     Subject: ignore
>     ...
> 
> My best guess is that pine is reading the From: line looking for a name
> in parentheses.  If it finds one then that name is listed as the sender,
> otherwise it uses the Newsgroups: line as the sender.  Can anybody confirm
> this?  Is there a workaround to get all the messages listed as being from 
> the actual sender?  Thanks.

Not quite.  If the message is From you, then it shows who the message is
To.  The match to determine "fromness" is based upon the email address. 
In your example above, msg 1 was from you, whereas msg 2 was from root. 

-- Mark --

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From: [email-masked] (Doug O'Neal)
Date: 8 May 1996 21:10:05 GMT

Doug
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