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)
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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=-