L.V.Gandhi rearranged electrons thusly:
> Thanks. I had a misconception that username and hostname pertains to
> newsserver. That created all the problems. What is that set reply to?
Puts up a reply-to field, in case someone decides to reply to your post by mail
instead of following up on the newsgroup *or worse, cc's you and the
newsgroup*, and you want replies to go to another address.
Several people on usenet do "munging" by using a bogus address in the from
field to avoid address harvesters run by spammers to gather addresses ...
The way these operate (using XOVER) generally avoids the reply-to field, so
it's reasonably safe to put a deliverable address there.
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Suresh Ramasubramanian <--> mallet <at> efn <dot> org
EMail Sturmbannfuhrer, Lower Middle Class Unix Sysadmin
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