Well, replying to your message, I get a choice of phdss@netins.net,
phdss@worf.netins.net and all recipients. I don't know if the worf is
a spamkiller.
>Such as this message right here, hit R for reply and the choice was
>between All recipes and your Email. The all recipes placed a msg to
>you and a carbon copy to the list - which I only wanted to reply to
>the list and not fill up your mbox with another dupe msg.
Actually, Yarn is smart enought not to have both e-mails in your
newsbase.
>I run a couple of mailing lists, and the address possibilities
>between the server and users is huge. Again it is rare the correct
>address is one of the choices.
>
>I don't feel this is Yarns fault at all - not the way the program is
>currently designed.
<snip>
>Finally, the inability to create my own reply address without
>changing the config file each time is also becoming very frustrating.
>Between work and home, I have 10 address's on 5 servers that I have
>to keep track of - which means editing/changing the config file
>before choosing to run Yarn. Combine that with my one choice of a
>spamproof header for Usenet messages, the need to be able to change
>my reply address on the fly is damn near mandatory.
>Is there a way to do this without modifying the config file an
>rerunning Yarn? For now, I just set a batch file to copy the
>correct config setup into the Yarn directory then run Yarn and
>process that batch of replies, and exit Yarn, modify-rerun Yarn,
>exit-modify-run...yada, yada you get the picture.
I'm running a copy of Tim Middleton's Yarf which allows an OS/2 user
to specify which address to use for e-mail/newsgroups. A small
snippet of the yarf.txt should show some of the possibilities.
There's also a DOS version included, but I haven't tried it yet.
WHAT IS YARF?
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Yarf works with YARN to allow you to automatically control your
email/news "From:" field. You can set up a different "From:"
field for email than for news postings. And more.
You can be even more specific, if you want, and set up many
different "From:" headers based on any text in your messages'
headers.
[This would allow you to set up your mailing lists with your real
addresses, usenet with a spamkiller.]
Some of the infinite possible practical uses for Yarf:
* Foil spammers who take your email address from usenet
postings -- have Yarf make your usenet posts show a
bogus "From:" field, yet maintain your real email address
for email messages.
* Perhaps some intimate friends you correspond with know
you by some nickname -- have Yarf detect mail to these
people and substitute your nickname.
* Maybe just in the newsgroup talk.bizzare it's very
important you be known as "Skippy the Singing Snail"?
There should be a pointer to the zip at:
http://www.vex.net/~x/bells2.phtml
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