Subject: HELP!!!!!

From: Arthur Dos Santos <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 8 May 1997 11:30:36 +0100 (BST)

Can you help me? I want to send an E-Mail to someone but i don't want my 
name at the top of it. Is this possible? and if so how do you do it? Your 
help will be greatly appreciated.

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From: Paul O Bartlett <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 8 May 1997 10:27:17 -0400

> help will be greatly appreciated.

    If the header on your post is any indication, you are using an old
and obsolete version of Pine, so old that I don't even know whether
this answer will apply to you.

    As Pine comes out of the box, no, it cannot do what you want.  You
can change the domain name portion of your address, but not the userid. 
However, you may set whatever personal name you want.  At the same
time, modern versions of Pine may be compiled by a system administrator
to allow changing the From: line entirely.  This is a special option
which many installations avoid deliberately.  Still -- and I am not
certain about this -- it is conceivable that somebody with enough
expertise could divine your email address from the message envelope.

    P.S.  People would appreciate it if next time you would use a more
descriptive subject on your message than just "help."

Paul                             <[email-masked]>
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