Re: "To:" instead of "From:" in the summary buffer (was: post Was: gnus and UTF-8)

[Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu>]

Karl Kleinpaste <karl@charcoal.com> writes:

> For Usenet postings off your server, unless the server's overviews
> contain data for Newsgroups, you'll still be stuck seeing your own name.
> That's where you need to ask your news administrator to do you a favor
> by adding "Newsgroups:full" to the end of overview.fmt.  It's not really
> an expensive addition to overviews, but newsadmins are a touchy lot.

It does depend on the size of the server and the number of people using
that information.  You're adding 20-odd bytes per article to the overview
size, which compared to the References header generally isn't *too* much,
but it can slow overview download.

Given that Xref is already in overview, it's harder to justify adding
Newsgroups as well.  (I think Content-Type is actually more useful, mostly
for client-side filtering.)

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Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>