Subject: Re: Why do I get "TO:newsgroup" instead of my name ? AND threading news

From: "Catherine McFarland" <[email-masked]>
Date: 19 Jun 1997 18:35:29 GMT

Actually I find this irritating as well, at least when reading news. There
may be hundreds of posts in a newsgroup and I'm not interesting in reading
my own, only responses to me or on the same subject.

Did you mean to say that any FROM-changed to-TO:"newsgroup" will always be
from me? I seem to recall seeing ones not from me on rare occasions but I
may be misremembering.

On a related note: Is there anyway to get Pine News to thread messages? It
would sure save a lot of time.
-- 

Catherine McFarland
**If everyone followed the golden rule it would end
90% of the world's problems and alleviate the rest.**

Paul O Bartlett <[email-masked]> wrote in article
<[email-masked]>...
> On Tue, 17 Jun 1997, John Burke wrote:
> 
> > Could some kind person please tell me where I can change my
> > Pine setup to place my name in the correct field. As you
> > can see from my posting it puts To:newsgroup. I had a look 
> > in Setup/Config but I can't see it. (I have Pine 3.95).
> 
>     Well, no, I couldn't see from your posting, because what you see
> and what we see are not always and entirely the same.  (Very important
> point!)  You didn't actually say so, but I take it that you are
> referring to what you see in the index listing when you open mail, a
> folder, or a newsgroup.  Pine assumes you know your own name, so why
> repeat it back to you?  Saying to whom or what you sent a message is
> considered to be more informative.  However, if you do not like this
> behavior, go into your configuration and read the online help for
> index-format.  Pine is doing what it was designed to do unless you
> explicitly tell it to change its behavior.
> 
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From: [email-masked] (Adam Bailey)
Date: Thu, 19 Jun 1997 16:34:50 -0500

In article <[email-masked]>, "Catherine

> from me? I seem to recall seeing ones not from me on rare occasions but I

This will also happen if there's no From: header on someone else's message.

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