X-Message-Number: 1975 From: whscad1!kqb (Kevin Q Brown +1 201 386 7344) Subject: CRYONICS Re: Sci.Cryonics posts > [ Darran, I don't know how to forge email addresses on USENET, although > I hear that "real hackers" can do it. :-) ... One of the good things about CryoNet is that it includes several "real hackers" who could tell me how to use "inews" to set the "From:" line to the original author rather than to me. Thank you! I forwarded several postings to sci.cryonics tonight, using my newly-found inews-hacking ability. Would the sci.cryonics readers please give me feedback on how those postings display on your news readers? (You can tell which postings they are. They all give the author's organization as 'Freezers "R" Us'!) In particular, since my intent is NOT to actually forge an email address, but rather to show the correct author and also show that I was the one who forwarded the message, please let me know if that is not clear when you read the posting. Thanks. I also received an intriguing suggestion for a method to automate the forwarding from CryoNet to sci.cryonics; in addition to CRYONICS and CRYONICS.POLITICS postings, create a third category called CRYONICS.SCI. All messages with CRYONICS.SCI in the Subject line would get sent to both CryoNet and sci.cryonics. One remaining complication is that USENET messages usually have a "References" line that shows what old messages, if any, the new message is responding to. (This enables USENET readers to follow a particular thread rather than just plug straight through all the new messages in a news group.) Since CryoNet messages do not have such References lines and the Subject lines that people choose can be arbitrary, I am not sure how to maintain properly and automatically the References in the sci.cryonics messages. Comments? Suggestions? Kevin Q. Brown INTERNET or Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=1975