Subj : Re: NNTP(S) via Thunderbird
To   : Stephan Gebbers
From : Accession
Date : Sun Nov 02 2025 20:25:17

Hey Stephan!

On Sun, Nov 02 2025 18:43:27 -0600, you wrote:

 > i made some funky test posts using Thunderbird and Pan on FSXNet.

Here's a post using slrn, which shells out to nano when I post or reply.

 > The "From" field includes an email in one post and the "To" field 
 > contains the "newsgroup area tag" etc. It is Usenet that has to fit 
 > into FTNs.

I'm not sure why Thunderbird put the newsgroup area tag in the "To" field, but that can probably be changed in your Thunderbird settings. Out of both posts that came through, neither of them show your email in the "From" field, so either Synchronet or clrghaus probably removed that for you.

One of the main things that bothers me about NNTP is by default all of your posts will be "To: All" unless you are able to force the "x-comment-to" field, which is doable in slrn as you can see this message is to you. It's also doable with Thunderbird with some messing with the config, but it's ugly.

Regards,
Nick

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