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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