Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!sun-barr!rutgers!att!cbnewsh!wcs From: wcs@cbnewsh.ATT.COM (Bill Stewart 201-949-0705 ho95c.att.com!wcs) Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions Subject: Re: Changing the From: Line Message-ID: <4395@cbnewsh.ATT.COM> Date: 30 Sep 89 14:05:05 GMT References: <5561@tank.uchicago.edu> Reply-To: wcs@cbnewsh.ATT.COM (Bill Stewart 201-949-0705 ho95c.att.com!wcs) Distribution: news.newusers.questions Organization: Bell Labs Random Organization Name Generator Lines: 33 In article <5561@tank.uchicago.edu> toto@tank.uchicago.edu (sandra jessica smyth) writes: ]In article <26716@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu> bwildasi@silver.bacs.indiana.edu (benjamin wildasin) writes: ] > how I can go about changing the From: line in my header. Just do it. If you're using a news reader like rn that lets you edit header lines, just change it. Otherwise, you really need to learn a more powerful newsreader. ] Why would anyone want to do this? (To be someone you are not?) The machine you post news from isn't always the machine you want your mail sent to. For instance, cbnewsh.att.com is one of a bunch of servers we use for news, but my mail goes to ho95c.att.com in New Jersey. (Yes, mail to cbnewsh!wcs will forward to me.) Another example is that many locations, especially universities, have clusters of diskless workstations shared by many people. Today you may have logged on to sun43.cslab.berzerkley.edu, but your real mail address is postoffice.berzerkley.edu. Or you may be borrowing someone else's account, because you don't have news access of your own, but you do have an email address. Or you may not like the (name) that comes from the password file - the way to change this is to set the variable NAME to what you want your real name to look like. sh: $ NAME="The Hunchback of Evans Hall" ; export NAME csh: % setenv NAME "Biff the Wonder Dog" Or, yes, you may be trying to forge an article about forged postings ... don't. We'll find you :-). -- # Bill Stewart, AT&T Bell Labs 4M312 Holmdel NJ 201-949-0705 ho95c.att.com!wcs # also found at 201-271-4712 tarpon.att.com!wcs Somerset 4C423 Corp. Park 3 # More Colombians die from American tobacco than Americans from Colombian coke.