Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!mailrus!ames!pacbell!lamc!wet!epsilon From: epsilon@wet.UUCP (Eric P. Scott) Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions Subject: Re: Changing the From: Line Message-ID: <628@wet.UUCP> Date: 1 Oct 89 21:36:42 GMT References: <5561@tank.uchicago.edu> <4395@cbnewsh.ATT.COM> Reply-To: epsilon@wet.UUCP (Eric P. Scott) Distribution: news.newusers.questions Organization: Wetware Diversions, San Francisco Lines: 21 In article <4395@cbnewsh.ATT.COM> wcs@cbnewsh.ATT.COM (Bill Stewart 201-949-0705 ho95c.att.com!wcs) writes: >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. Hence the Reply-To: header. > Another example is >that many locations, especially universities, have clusters of diskless >workstations shared by many people. This is something for the news administrator; look at the GENERICFROM setting in netnews. > Or you may be borrowing someone else's >account In that case you really do want to change the From: line. -=EPS=-