Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!twwells!bill 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 References: <26716@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu> Distribution: news.newusers.questions Organization: None, Ft. Lauderdale, FL Lines: 29 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.) --- Bill { uunet | novavax | ankh | sunvice } !twwells!bill bill@twwells.com