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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)
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Organization: Bell Labs Random Organization Name Generator
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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 :-).

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