jeffd@ficc.uu.net (jeff daiell) (02/13/90)
Someone wrote: > > From: jeffd@ficc.uu.net (jeff daiell) > [...] > > (4) Literate people capitalize proper names. > [...] > > Q.E.D. Nope. I'm innocent. The from line is produced automatically, by the software. Jeff -- Pun for the day: "I'm a sucker for vampire stories." -- Chuq von Rospach
ckd@bu-pub.bu.edu (Christopher Davis) (02/13/90)
>>>>> On 12 Feb 90 20:13:34 GMT, jeffd@ficc.uu.net (jeff daiell) said: > Someone [me --ckd] wrote: > > From: jeffd@ficc.uu.net (jeff daiell) > [...] > > (4) Literate people capitalize proper names. > [...] > > Q.E.D. > Nope. I'm innocent. The from line is produced automatically, > by the software. Blaming the software? If you're using most newsposters, you can set an environment variable to put the name in. If all else fails, you can even use chfn(1). As Hong C. Choong once said to someone else who blamed the software for their error--"Real men read news at the NNTP server." --Chris Davis (ckd@128.197.21.13) PS: You can always just shout over the cubicle walls and ask Peter, y'know. -- Christopher Davis, BU SMG '90 <ckd@bu-pub.bu.edu> <smghy6c@buacca.bitnet> NETWORK PLANNING CONSTRAINT OF THE MONTH: "You can't send bits over a non-existent link." --Valdis Kletnieks <valdis@vtvm1.cc.vt.edu>
) (02/16/90)
In article <MZP1S_8xds8@ficc.uu.net>, jeffd@ficc.uu.net (jeff daiell) writes: > Someone wrote: > > > From: jeffd@ficc.uu.net (jeff daiell) > > [...] > > > (4) Literate people capitalize proper names. > > [...] > > Q.E.D. > Nope. I'm innocent. The from line is produced automatically, > by the software. That's right. There's absolutely NO way to set the From: line. Nope. -- John Woods, Charles River Data Systems, Framingham MA, (508) 626-1101 ...!decvax!frog!john, john@frog.UUCP, ...!mit-eddie!jfw, jfw@eddie.mit.edu