From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/8047 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: cliff barnes Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: help with posting style profile Date: Thu, 05 Oct 2006 10:39:54 GMT Message-ID: <_h5Vg.77218$aP3.4241@fe3.news.blueyonder.co.uk> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1160044816 1037 80.91.229.2 (5 Oct 2006 10:40:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2006 10:40:16 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Oct 05 12:40:14 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GVQeC-0004MH-NH for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Thu, 05 Oct 2006 12:40:13 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GVQeC-00040J-7K for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Thu, 05 Oct 2006 06:40:12 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsfeed.berkeley.edu!ucberkeley!feeder.news-service.com!feed.xsnews.nl!feeder.xsnews.nl!feeder2.cambrium.nl!feed.tweaknews.nl!border2.nntp.ams.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!pe2.news.blueyonder.co.uk!blueyonder!pe1.news.blueyonder.co.uk!blueyonder!fe3.news.blueyonder.co.uk.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.7 (Windows/20060909) Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus In-Reply-To: Original-Lines: 16 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 82.47.16.16 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@blueyonder.co.uk Original-X-Trace: fe3.news.blueyonder.co.uk 1160044794 82.47.16.16 (Thu, 05 Oct 2006 11:39:54 BST) Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 05 Oct 2006 11:39:54 BST Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.gnus:78232 Original-To: info-gnus-english@gnu.org X-BeenThere: info-gnus-english@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Announcements and discussions for GNUS, the GNU Emacs Usenet newsreader \(in English\)" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:8047 Archived-At: Thomas Hühn wrote: > cliff barnes wrote: > >> However, although a Usenet posting will show the 'from' as 'cliff >> barnes', when the message is opened to be read, below the 'from' is a >> field called 'sender' - which actually shows the user name and host name >> of my pc!! >> >> My question is how can I set this to a null value or even another name - >> without of course changing my unix user account name. > > (add-to-list 'message-syntax-checks '(sender . disabled)) > > Thomas Thank you. I got it to work