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From: bill@twwells.com (T. William Wells)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: Re: Changing the From: Line
Message-ID: <1989Sep29.063821.13843@twwells.com>
Date: 29 Sep 89 06:38:21 GMT
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In article <26716@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu> bwildasi@silver.bacs.indiana.edu (benjamin wildasin) writes:
: I recently started posting to Usenet and would like to know how I
: can go about changing the From: line in my header.
:
: If you know how to do this, please post or send me E-mail.

You have not given us enough information to properly answer you. Are
you running rn? Readnews? What? You might also need to tell us other
things, but that would be the bare minimum.

Also, why do you want to do this? Some rude people have suggested
that the only reason for doing this is to forge messages, but
actually there are several good reasons why one might want to fiddle
with the headers.

Are you trying to correct a mistake the system is making in
generating the headers? Are you trying to change the headers so that
replies go to another address? If, for example, you are trying to do
the latter, adding a Reply-To: header makes more sense than changing
the From: line. Or maybe you have some other purpose?

(BTW, if your purpose really *is* forging messages, don't bother with
changing the From: line. Changing it will get a new header added to
your message, the Sender: line, and that will contain your real
address. Forgers have to be a bit more clever than that.)

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