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Paul O Bartlett  
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 More options Jun 24 1998, 3:00 am
Newsgroups: comp.mail.pine
From: Paul O Bartlett <pob...@access.digex.net>
Date: 1998/06/24
Subject: Re: Personal Name

On Tue, 23 Jun 1998, Roger Scudder wrote:
>  I am new to pine and need some advice.  In the configuration
> field, Personal Name, I put my full name "Roger Scudder".  When
> I write in a news group instead of my name being placed in the
> from field the name of the news group is there.  I have looked
> over the configuration options and don't see anything that would
> change this.  My name is correct in the header, just not in
> pines index.  Anyone know what I am doing wrong?

    Nothing is broken.  You are describing Pine's default behavior.
Pine assumes you already know your own name, so why throw it back at
you?  You may change this.  Read the online help under index-format in
your configuration.

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