Subject: Re: inconsistency in pine index for news

From: [email-masked] (Doug O'Neal)
Date: 8 May 1996 21:14:51 GMT

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
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.

Doug
--
Douglas O'Neal, Senior Systems Programmer, Johns Hopkins University
[email-masked], [email-masked], mimsy!jhunix!doug 
"Unix is user-friendly, its just picky about who it's friends with."

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From: David L Miller <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 9 May 1996 10:27:27 -0700

> the actual sender?  Thanks.

To make the index always show the From:, go to the Setup/Config screen
and set

	index-format=STATUS MSGNO DATE FROM(33%) SIZE SUBJECT(67%)

or a suitable variation.

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