Re: '=> gmane.emacs.help' as sender?

[Tassilo Horn]

Thorsten Jolitz <tjolitz@googlemail.com> writes:

Hi Thorsten,

>   tried the same with my new email address, but instead of showing
>   'first name' 'last name' as sender (like configured in gmail) I get
>   this:
>
> ,--------------------------------------------
> | [  31: => gmane.emacs.help    ] subject ...
> `--------------------------------------------

That's intended and the reason is that you probably know your own first
and last name, and thus some other display is more useful for own
articles.

,----
|   3. The `gnus-ignored-from-addresses' variable says when the `%f'
|      summary line spec returns the `To', `Newsreader' or `From' header.
|      If this regexp matches the contents of the `From' header, the
|      value of the `To' or `Newsreader' headers are used instead.
| 
|      To distinguish regular articles from those where the `From' field
|      has been swapped, a string is prefixed to the `To' or `Newsgroups'
|      header in the summary line.  By default the string is `-> ' for
|      `To' and `=> ' for `Newsgroups', you can customize these strings
|      with `gnus-summary-to-prefix' and `gnus-summary-newsgroup-prefix'.
`----

If you don't like that, replace %f with %F in your
`gnus-summary-line-format'.

,----[ C-h v gnus-summary-line-format RET ]
| gnus-summary-line-format is a variable defined in `gnus.el'.
| [...]
| %F          Contents of the From: header (string)
| %f          Contents of the From: or To: headers (string)
| [...]
`----

Bye,
Tassilo