Re: Using tin to access fido(7) nntp geteways

On Wed, May 09, 2012 at 02:56:03PM +0400, Anton Shepelev wrote:
> > > When posting to fido7, it is required to use the
> > > X-Comment-To field, which I have enabled in  the
> > > attribute  file, but tin doesn't fill it accord-
> > > ing to the fido7 convention, which is to set  it
> > > to  the  name  (no address) of the person one is
> > > replying to, and use  the  constant  "All"  when
> > > starting a thread.  Can this be customized?
> >
> > X-Comment-To currently can't be customized without
> > changing the source.
> 
> Why is it currently set to both name and address?  I

AFAIK (but I've never been a fido-point nor did I read any of the
hierarchies), that's the format which is/was used in the (german) fido net.

> should  like  to  ask for, or even make, a patch, to
> have tin fill this header  according  to  fido7  re-
> quirements,  if it won't break another use case I am
> unaware of...

If you do a patch either use a customizable string like in
news_quote_format

# %A Address    %D Date   %F Addr+Name   %G Groupname   %M Message-ID
# %N Full Name  %C First Name   %I Initials

i.e.:

X-Comment-To=%N %A

or at least a more way toggle OFF, FULL NAME, ADDRESS, FULL NAME + ADDRESS

urs
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