From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/16255 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Post with different address? Date: 25 Aug 1998 08:10:26 +0200 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035155152 26626 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 23:05:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 23:05:52 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from gwyn.tux.org (gwyn.tux.org [207.96.122.8]) by altair.xemacs.org (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id XAA13411 for ; Mon, 24 Aug 1998 23:27:35 -0700 Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by gwyn.tux.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id CAA05521 for ; Tue, 25 Aug 1998 02:28:51 -0400 Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id BAK04208; Tue, 25 Aug 1998 01:28:44 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Tue, 25 Aug 1998 01:26:01 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (root@sclp3.sclp.com [209.195.19.139]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id BAA04111 for ; Tue, 25 Aug 1998 01:25:29 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from sparky.gnus.org (ppp112.uio.no [129.240.240.117]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id CAA16186 for ; Tue, 25 Aug 1998 02:25:20 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: (from larsi@localhost) by sparky.gnus.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id IAA11881; Tue, 25 Aug 1998 08:26:20 +0200 Mail-Copies-To: never X-Now-Reading: Jack Dann (ed.)'s _Nova Awards 32_ Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: Anders Melchiorsen's message of "24 Aug 1998 21:40:10 +0200" X-Mailer: Gnus v5.6.40/Emacs 20.2 X-Face: &w!^oO~dS|}-P0~ge{$c!h\ writes: > I have set some posting styles to let me use a different, spammer > confusing e-mail address (see above) when posting to widely spread > groups or mailing lists. However, I still like my unaltered address to > be used in personal e-mails. This is not a good idea. The From header in all news articles should be valid. > The problem is that if I reply (as opposed to follow up) in a > newsgroup the obfuscated address is still used. Is there a way to, > within the same group, use a different address for replies than for > follow ups? Yes. You can check the dynamically bound variables `message-this-is-{news,mail}'. I've now documented this in the manual. Doing stuff like this still means sending out mails with invalid From header when doing combined messages. I do receive some mails with invalid From headers, and I never notice. When they bounce, I let them drop. I do not try to figure out what the real address is supposed to be. I'm probably not the only one, so mangling From headers is not only a bad idea for ideological reasons, but in practice as well. -- (domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.) larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen