All:   
      
   Wanted to discuss the def_showto behavior and handling.  I notice some   
   oddities created by having -> inside the from field. It seems to cause   
   particular problems with special characters (umlauts).   
      
   I modified how it works here but wanted to get thoughts:   
      
   For now, I changed it to :   
      
   From - To   
      
   Alternatives I can experiment with are:   
      
   Matt Bedynek -) All   
   Matt Bedynek (to) All   
      
   In addition, I found that with agent at least if I leave this in the   
   article list that you get the benefit of seeing from/to when browsing   
   messages.  However, if I removed it from the article request when the   
   pperson replies to a messge it only has their name.  I suspect it will   
   differ depending on the news reader used.  Thunderbird appears to use   
   the header... :(   
      
   Also, instead of having unknown or unknown@unknown for all messages, I   
   tested simply excluding the e-mail address <> altogether and it works.   
      
   The logic I employed was:   
      
   1.  If a REPLYADDR is present, use this for the e-mail (netmail or   
   echomail area)   
   2.  If reading a netmail area, zone.net.none.point format will be used   
   if no REPLYADDR present.   
   3.  If reading echomail, and no reply addr is present, do not include   
   e-mail at all ... From: Name Only   
      
   I abandoneed the zone:net/none as the /'s caused issues for display in   
   my news readers.  If anything I might simply used a dotted notation.   
      
   Matt   
      
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