[news.newusers.questions] How do I modify the header....

morris@jade.jpl.nasa.gov (Mike Morris) (01/21/90)

No I don't want to forge, so you can cap that flamethrower.

I dial in to a serial port on a Sun workstation.
The Organization: line in the header is not accurate.
Also there are Cc: and Bcc: lines I'd like to eliminate, as well
as Sender:, since it's always the same as From:
In perusing the man pages for rn (my only docs) I see the references to a
ORGANIZATION environment variable.  I tried setting it, but it 
doesn't seem to have any effect.  rn sees a change in term, so I'd think
it would see a newly defined variable?
And I didn't see any mention of the others I mentioned above.
I'm not an experienced unix user, so please don't reply RTFM, as 
I have very limited manuals to read - and they aren't SunOS, or
even Berkely.  

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eps@toaster.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott) (01/23/90)

Part of the "problem" is that everyone doesn't run the same "rn"
program; rn is distributed in source form, and has many, many
options that can be chosen when it's built.  The command set is
consistent, KILL files work the same way, but how headers are
handled can differ.  In this case, you'll have to ask your news
administrator.  If you *are* the news administrator, you'll have
to look at the code and configuration options to see what's
really going on.  Saying "it works for me" doesn't do much, other
than let you know it's POSSIBLE.

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