hide headers

[Nick Edwards]

On 9/9/14, Julien ÉLIE <julien at trigofacile.com> wrote:
> Hi Nick,
>
>> we need to sort out some hiding of headers.
> [...]
>> I get "addnntppostinghost: false" but how do we stop all of the other
>> X-trace and X-X stuff that identifies a poster?
>
> Besides Steve's wise answer I also recommend regarding the X-Trace:
> header field, I suggest you have a look at:
>      <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/faqs/inn.html#S6.11>
>
> ---
> Hide the Injection-Info header
>
> There is no built-in support for suppressing generation of the
> Injection-Info header.  You can, however, remove it from inside a Perl
> posting filter.  Try using a posting filter like this:
>
>      sub filter_post {
>          $modify_headers = 1;
>          delete $hdr{'Injection-Info'};
>          return '';
>      }
>
> Note that you have to set $modify_headers to make changes to the article
> header effective in the actual posted article.  Instead of removing the
> header, you can also alter it if you modify $hdr{'Injection-Info'}.
> ---
>
> This method of course works for other headers.
> I hope it answers your needs in case you wish to hide other headers than
> the X-Trace: one or the Injection-Info: one.
>
>
>
> More information about posting filters:
>      <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/software/inn/docs/hook-perl.html#S5>
>
>
> And welcome to INN by the way.  Do not hesitate to ask questions here or
> in news.software.nntp in case you need some help.
>
>

Thanks, with this and Steve's, I think I got it nutted out, have one
more question, but to keep uniformity I'll start a new thread.