From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/22027 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dmitry Yaitskov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: How to not display my own name? Date: 23 Mar 1999 13:20:03 -0500 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=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035160021 25954 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 00:27:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 00:27:01 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from fisher.math.uh.edu (fisher.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.35]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id NAA18287 for ; Tue, 23 Mar 1999 13:20:16 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by fisher.math.uh.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id MAB19125; Tue, 23 Mar 1999 12:19:13 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Tue, 23 Mar 1999 12:19:36 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (root@sclp3.sclp.com [204.252.123.139]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id MAA03718 for ; Tue, 23 Mar 1999 12:19:21 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from mail.rdc1.on.home.com (imail@ha1.rdc1.on.wave.home.com [24.2.9.66]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id NAA18233 for ; Tue, 23 Mar 1999 13:19:14 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from LUCY ([24.65.93.139]) by mail.rdc1.on.home.com (InterMail v4.00.03 201-229-104) with SMTP id <19990323181843.ZILX13966.mail.rdc1.on.home.com@LUCY> for ; Tue, 23 Mar 1999 10:18:43 -0800 Original-To: Ding In-Reply-To: Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE's message of "23 Mar 1999 18:33:40 +0100" Original-Lines: 36 User-Agent: Gnus/5.07008 (Pterodactyl Gnus v0.80) XEmacs/21.2(beta13) (Demeter) Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:22027 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:22027 Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE wrote: > Dmitry Yaitskov writes: > > > 2) Why is it all so complicated? What's the big deal with replacing > > "To:" with "From:" in a summary line? The headers are in the messages, > > why do I need to write all that stuff about extra headers and ignored > > addresses instead of just specifying a different > > gnus-summary-line-format? There *must* be a reason, but I did not get > > it at all, and would appreciate somebody to kindly enlighten me. Many > > thanks. Oops, of course I meant `replacing "From:" with "To:"'... > You have to add the *-extra-headers part because Gnus uses the > overview information *only* for building summaries, and the two > variables make it so that the From header is inserted into the > overview data (which is not there by default). I kind of see your point... still it all looks ugly IM-very H-O for mail (i.e. locally stored) groups. > Setting gnus-ignored-from-addresses is there for extra flexibility. > Maybe you have more than one email address, or you want to display the > To header for mails from frumple, too. Or something. Maybe a > reasonable default for this variable is missing. But in a group like "sent" (where it all makes most sense) I want *just* the To: header, I never care about the From:... whatever it is. It is me anyway, no? Still... why doesn't my setup work? ;^| -- Cheers, -Dima.