Subject: "follow-up to" line: how?

From: R R Neuswanger <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 5 Sep 1996 10:27:25 -0400

Is there a way to get a follow-up to line among
the headers on messages I want to post (seldom, I hope)
to a group whose robomoderator requires that, short of
reconfiguring my default headers and having the  fool
thing hanging up there in the way every time I start a
message?

R.R. (Beartooth) Neuswanger, Ph.D., NRA life
[email-masked]                  Gun control, the opiate of
202.707.8747 (shared line)    the intellectuals: elitism
I speak for me. Only.         laced with self-righteousness.

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From: Mike Brudenell <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 6 Sep 1996 11:50:18 +0100 (BST)

You can add your own custom headers to the set provided as standard by
Pine in its Setup Configuration screen....

At the Main Menu type "S" (Setup) then "C" (Configuration).  Now look
through the screen for a variable called "customized-hdrs".  If you put
your cursor on this and type "?" it will show you the online help for the
item.

Basically you can use this variable to add a list of additional (custom)
headers with (optionally) default values for each.

When you are composing a message they will not appear by default; to
see/use them put your cursor on a header line and type ^R (Rich Header) to
get the full list of headers available to you.  (Note that if you do set
up a default value for a custom header then it will be set and used even
if you don't type ^R -- this is just to let you see them or change their
value.)

If you want a particualr header to be visible in the list you see when you
compose a message (ie, without having to use ^R) you can do this in the
Setup Configuration screen too.

Cheers,

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Mike Brudenell                                         <[email-masked]>
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From: R R Neuswanger <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 6 Sep 1996 10:17:15 -0400 (EDT)

Aha! (Mike Brudenell explained how to modify the
customized-headers line, as opposed to the
default-headers line, which was all I'd spotted).  My
customized-headers line says <Value is Fixed>; I bet
that means my gurus have decided I'm not to be trusted
with tweaking them -- I wonder why ....