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From: khera@juliet.cs.duke.edu (Vick Khera)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.mh
Subject: Re: Using the %(friendly{}) format
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Date: 20 Mar 90 15:38:12 GMT
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In article <9003192327.AA07968@abyss.eng.umd.edu> ziegast@mordor ("Eric W. Ziegast") writes:

[description about friendly headers]

>In order to make it easier for me when composing messages to include
>the friendly from line, I have the following "components" file in my
>MH directory:
>
>	From: ziegast@mordor.eng.umd.edu (Eric W. Ziegast)
> [ ... ]
>Such "From:" line additions can be added to replcomps, forwcomps, and
>others as well.
>Question for the MH experts: Is there an easier way to do this?

yes.  add a line to your .mh_profile: (mine is below)

Signature: Vick Khera

this will prepend your name to the From: line generated by mh, and mail
received will look like

From: Vick Khera <khera@cs.duke.edu>

>I hope that I've helped some people by showing this "trick" (not really,
>I just read and reread the man pages) and hope that many will stop
>using the friendly formats. (Down with BERK !  :-)

why should we stop using friendly formats?

can anyone tell me a good reason for specifying BERK as an option?

>Eric Ziegast
>University of Maryland
>Electrical Engineering

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