rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert) (04/19/91)
In article <1991Apr18.190511.661@ddtg.com> maples@ddtg.com (Greg Maples) writes: >Not really certain this is the right group, but... > >I want to hide my hostname behind my domain when posting from NNTP to >CNews. What comes out now is 'user@host.domain.com', and what I want >to see posted is 'user@domain.com'. I've looked at the CNews source, PLEASE NOTE: I have cross posted this to news.software.b, and have also placed that group in the 'Followup' line. I would like to do the same. In fact I would like to look up a map file to give the appropriate address depending on the department of the person posting the message. Doing this is not all that difficult, since inews is itself a shell script. Relatively simple changes to inews or to anne.jones could be used to accomplish this. But this introduces other problems. For the newsreader will not recognize the poster, and will not let him cancel his own posting. This needs some mechanism for the news reading software to call a locally provided routine (or shell script?) to authenticate the author of an article for which cancellation is requested. -- =*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*= Neil W. Rickert, Computer Science <rickert@cs.niu.edu> Northern Illinois Univ. DeKalb, IL 60115 +1-815-753-6940