Subject: Re: proper headers

From: Paul O Bartlett <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 13 Feb 1997 16:25:01 -0500

On Wed, 12 Feb 1997, Mike Miller wrote:

> I don't know if this is a pine problem, as I always us pine and cannot
> compare, uh, but
> 
> 	Whenever I see a post I have made to a newsgroup, it is always
> listed as 
> 	To:<insert newsgroup name>
> where other people seem to have managed to get their names in this place.
> Now, It is not that I want to see my name in print so badly, but is does
> seem incorrect.

    Sigh.  Repetition number 4,238,109 of this Frequently Asked
Question.  What you are describing is Pine's default behavior.  The
design assumption is that you already know your own name, so why repeat
it to you?  Show something else instead.  However, you can change this
behavior away from the default.  Go into the configuration and read the
online help for index-format.

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From: Mike Miller <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 12 Feb 1997 19:22:18 -0700

Any help is appreciated,
	
	Mike.

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From: Paul O Bartlett <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 14 Feb 1997 09:52:07 -0500

On Thu, 13 Feb 1997, Mike Miller wrote:

: Thanks for the feedback, sorry if I'm spamming the newsgroup.  My concern
: was not that I couldn't see my name in print, but that others were seeking
: my posts in the same way as I was, and not getting the proper information.
: Now I know better -- It's not a bug, it's a feature!
: 
: On Thu, 13 Feb 1997, Paul O Bartlett wrote:
: > On Wed, 12 Feb 1997, Mike Miller wrote:
: > > 	Whenever I see a post I have made to a newsgroup, it is always
: > > listed as  To:<insert newsgroup name>
: >     Sigh.  Repetition number 4,238,109 of this Frequently Asked
: > Question.  What you are describing is Pine's default behavior. [...]

    Just to clear up any possible misconceptions, what you see and what
your recipient sees may not be the same thing.  Pine by default shows
you one thing concerning your outbound mail.  What your recipient's
mailer shows him/her may be different.  There is a whole smorgasbord of
message headers.  Which one or ones a given mailer shows under any
given set of circumstances depend on the mailer, how it is configured,
and what the particular circumstances are.  These days, even two Pine
users at each end of the message channel may see something different.

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From: <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 18 Feb 1997 11:03:21 -0600

> users at each end of the message channel may see something different.
I was just in another ng and I saw another person's (not mine) mail
headers listed that way.  Only this one guy's posts were listed this way.

gs