Re: How to not display my own name?

[Bill White <billw@wolfram.com>]

I've been trying the same things as Dmitry as they're posted to the
list, and I'm having the same problems and symptoms he's having,
including the last ones he reports below. I'm using

   Pterodactyl Gnus v0.80 

with 

   GNU Emacs 20.3.1 (i586-unicent-linux-gnu, X toolkit) of Thu Aug 20
   1998 on banshee

In message <u7lru3ef2.fsf@home.com>,
Dmitry Yaitskov <dimas@home.com> wrote:

> Michael Welsh Duggan <md5i@cs.cmu.edu> wrote:
> 
> > Dmitry Yaitskov <dimas@home.com> writes:
> > 
> > > Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> wrote:
> > > 
> > > > Dmitry Yaitskov <user@home.com> writes:
> > > > 
> > > > > Eh, um, sorry about that - but I still do not know - how to display
> > > > > "To:" instead of "From:" in a specific group?
> > > > 
> > > > Well, you would have to alter gnus-summary-line-format for that group
> > > > to include the proper spec.
> > > 
> > > That's what I'm trying to do, in the groups parameters (G p) there is
> > > a line trying to set the format to a one from the gnus faq. Here's my
> > > 'sent' group parameters:
> > > 
> > > ((display . all)
> > >  (comment . "mail sent by me")
> > >  (visible . t)
> > >  (gnus-extra-headers quote
> > >                                        (To))
> > >  (nnmail-extra-headers gnus-extra-headers)
> > >  (gnus-summary-line-format . "%U%R%z%I%(%[%4L: %-20,20f%]%) %s\n")
> > >  (gnus-ignored-from-addresses . "dimas"))
> > > 
> > > It doesn't work. What am I doing wrong here?
> > 
> > I think it might be the fact that you are using a dotted pair, when
> > the docs say to use a list.  Try removing the `.' from the
> > gnus-summary-line-format and gnus-ignored-from-addresses and see if
> > that fixes it.
> 
> Thanks. That helped, a bit. I.e. the specified format line is now used
> and not just ignored as it was previously (e.g. I can change it and it
> shows). But, I still cannot make it show the contents of 'To:' instead
> of 'From:'. I tried
> 
>  (gnus-extra-headers (To Newsgroups))
> 
> and
> 
>  (gnus-extra-headers '(To Newsgroups))
> 
> to no avail. It still only shows my own name (i.e. the 'From:' header.
> 
> BTW. I'm sure the dots were not my own invention - they show up after
> setting some of the parameters via customize (I'm using XEmacs). Seems
> some kind of a conflict here. Also, some of the parameters which are
> specified via dots (e.g. to-list, to-address) are picked up by Gnus
> ok. Any ideas?

bw
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