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From: jack@cs.glasgow.ac.uk (Jack Campin)
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Subject: Re: Changing the From: Line
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Date: 1 Oct 89 14:08:08 GMT
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toto@tank.uchicago.edu (sandra jessica smyth) wrote:
> 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.

>  Why would anyone want to do this?
>  (To be someone you are not?)

One good reason for doing it would be because your system manager is an
incompetent bozo who's set things up so the "From:" line is nonsense.

There are lots of sites out there that have a ".edu.UUCP" suffix on this
line; replies to articles from them will invariably bounce unless you spot
it in time and edit the address.

"Reply-To:" will kludge around this for the poster, though.

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