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From: ron@topaz.rutgers.edu (Ron Natalie)
Newsgroups: news.misc,comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Two seldom asked but important questions
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Date: Fri, 19-Jun-87 16:20:49 EDT
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	1) How does one set up the individual ID information
	   that appears as the author's location when posting
	   articles to the net?  Mine defaults to something
	   that is not correct or desirable.  I have seen people
	   put all sorts of unique stuff there.

To override the default information just set the NAME environment variable
(normally gotten from /etc/passwd) to change the user's real name and the
ORGANIZATION environment variable (which is either compiled into inews or
loaded from the orginization file depending on the version of news you have)
to change the organization line.  Try reading the inews manual page.

	2) How does one interpret or figure out the author's
	   e-mail address??  I use uucp but don't understand
	   the syntax of these other network addresses.

Well in the best case your mail system can handle the 822 address
as specified in the from line.  Otherwise, you can take the part
before the @ sign and append that to a subset of what is in the
Path line.  The path line indicates the way the message got to
your machine, although you can probably edit it for a more efficient
return route.

-Ron