Subject: Re: "Control: " Header in Unix Pine?

From: "Glenn P.," <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 6 Mar 1997 23:25:56 -0500

[ Posted and mailed. ]

On Wed., 05-Mar-1997, I [Glenn P.,] wrote:

>> This would work, and I have contemplated doing this myself, but there's a
>> slight problem -- the headers would be present ALL of the time, in E-Mail
>> as well as in Usenet Posts, <...>

On Wed., 05-Mar-1997, "Mr. Stan Kalisch III" wrote [edited]:

> No, the headers wouldn't be in your e-mail or your Usenet posts. For
> example, at the beginning of this message I'm composing, there exists a
> place for a "Distribution:" header in the template -- you'll notice,
> however, that you don't see a "Distribution:" header in this message.

> Normally, they just won't exist.

> Something seems amiss, either in your telling of the situation, or your
> software.

You are correct; I am in error. I made an (unwarranted) assumption regarding
how Pine worked; seems I've made a fool out of myself again! Oh, well.   :/

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From: David L Miller <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 7 Mar 1997 11:55:27 -0800

On Wed, 5 Mar 1997, Stan Kalisch III wrote:

> place for a "Distribution:" header in the template--you'll notice,

I think there was at least one release of Pine that didn't properly
suppress blank headers.  The current Pine 3.96 release should...

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