Hello again, thanks for your help. I have just a few comments... On Sat, 11 May 1996, Peter Rauch wrote: > In PINE, you can edit the headers, create your own headers, and so > you can cut and paste in the original values for those headers too. > > See Rich Headers, and see the SETUP/OPTIONS for details (unless your > PINE is supplied by a service bureau that does not permit you to > change the setup/options, in which case, it's not PINE but your service > that's the bottleneck). I have Pine 3.91 for Unix (running on SunOS). I checked the SETUP/CONFIG option in the main menu but I couldn't find anything that mentioned rich headers. The only similar option I found was "[ ] enable-full-headers" which I have turned on. In any case I didn't manage to actually edit the headers. > But, there is another issue. You probably shouldn't be changing the > >From field from you to the original author. After all, you have now > changed the contents of the message, and it is no longer that of > the original author; in fact, the original author might get very > upset to have email distributed which is attributed to her but written/ > edited by someone else. Better to send the edited copy back to the > original author and ask her to revise her message according to your > suggestions so that it gets "approved" for posting. I agree with you. It's always better to resend it back to the original sender, but in this case I refered to editing such things as wrong spellings in the topics or in the format/style that I request the subscribers to abide to when posting to the list. I do not intend to actually change the content of their mails. In any case it is always a sensible issue editing/moderating... > And, you have no control over the "Approved-By: <listowner>" header that > gets inserted by LISTSERV before distribution. You could add additional > Approved-by: headers, but I don't know to what purpose. > > That leaves only the Reply-To: header as interesting to edit. > Peter R. I guess this is the field that I would like changed to the original sender or list (depending on the Reply-To parameter in Listserv). Basically this would be the headers that I'd like to see sent when I edit the message: Approved-By: <the editor's address> From: <the editor's address> Reply-To: <whatever the Reply-To parameter was set in Listserv> ... and if possible (does it exist??? Could it be added? Does it make sense?) Original(ly)-From or Original(ly)-Sent-By: <the original sender's address> (actually this could be the From as long as Revised-By is there) Revised-By or Edited-By: <the editor's address> ...or something similar. What do you think? Looks pretty messy huh?... all I really want is to keep the same headers as when I just resend it without editing it, and maybe just add the Revised-By for authorship sake. Best wishes, David M