Subject: newsgroup

From: Marcus Sommarmyr <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 17 Jun 1996 02:54:25 +0200 (MET DST)

I have a short question for whoever it may concern:

When I post a mail to a newsgroup my real name doesn't show up, instead
it says "To: <newsgroup name>".

How do I change this?? It doesn't look nice at all.

I already asked my local provider but they didn't know.

MS

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From: Paul O Bartlett <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 17 Jun 1996 11:00:18 -0400

> I already asked my local provider but they didn't know.

    I am not 100% certain of the meaning of your question, but I will
make a guess.  Are you saying that when you send a posting to a
newsgroup, "To: <newsgroup name>" appears when you look at the
newsgroup itself, while other postings have the names of the senders? 
If this is what you are seeing, then the answer is that this is the way
Pine works.  It was designed to do this.

    Compare email.  Usually you see whom a message is FROM, but if you
yourself sent the message, you already know whom it is from -- yourself
-- so Pine changes this to "To: <recipient name>".  Pine tries to
handle mail and news similarly, so it does the same thing with news. 
In other words, nothing is broken: this is how Pine was designed to
act.

    However, I think that in the very most recent versions of Pine,
3.93 and 3.94, you can change this behavior, although I do not have the
exact details with me.  Check the documentation for those two
releases.

Paul                             <[email-masked]>
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