From britdisc-owner@csv.warwick.ac.uk Wed Mar 5 11:28:55 1997 Received: from thistle.csv.warwick.ac.uk by pansy.csv.warwick.ac.uk with ESMTP id LAA16384; Wed, 5 Mar 1997 11:28:41 GMT Received: by thistle.csv.warwick.ac.uk id LAA27368; Wed, 5 Mar 1997 11:19:54 GMT Received: from pansy.csv.warwick.ac.uk by thistle.csv.warwick.ac.uk with ESMTP id LAA27363; Wed, 5 Mar 1997 11:19:43 GMT Received: from ritig1.rit.reuters.com by pansy.csv.warwick.ac.uk with SMTP id LAA14828; Wed, 5 Mar 1997 11:19:20 GMT Received: from ritig4.rit.reuters.com by ritig1.rit.reuters.com; (5.65v3.2/1.1.8.2/14Sep94-0947PM) id AA21196; Wed, 5 Mar 1997 06:16:45 -0500 Received: from mr.rit.reuters.com by RITIG4.RIT.REUTERS.COM (PMDF V5.1-7 #7805) id <01IG4TA5LITS000I3M@RITIG4.RIT.REUTERS.COM> for britdisc@csv.warwick.ac.uk; Wed, 5 Mar 1997 06:16:32 EST Received: with PMDF-MR; Wed, 05 Mar 1997 11:16:53 +0000 (GMT) Mr-Received: by mta REC.MUAS; Relayed; Wed, 05 Mar 1997 11:16:53 +0000 Mr-Received: by mta RE6; Relayed; Wed, 05 Mar 1997 11:16:56 +0000 Mr-Received: by mta RITIG4; Relayed; Wed, 05 Mar 1997 11:16:27 +0000 Disclose-Recipients: prohibited Date: Wed, 05 Mar 1997 11:16:53 +0000 (GMT) From: Patrick Moore 5884 <patrick.moore@reuters.com> Subject: Re: E-mail whinge! In-Reply-To: <7847581403031997/A54832/RE6/11B31BBA2F00@RITIG4.RIT.REUTERS.COM> To: britdisc <britdisc@csv.warwick.ac.uk> Message-Id: <6553161105031997/A77594/RE6/11B32AD03400*@MHS> Autoforwarded: false Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Importance: normal Priority: normal Sensitivity: Company-Confidential Ua-Content-Id: 11B32AD03400 X400-Mts-Identifier: [;6553161105031997/A77594/RE6] Hop-Count: 2 Sender: owner-britdisc@csv.warwick.ac.uk Precedence: bulk I wrote (among other things): >Or perhaps it's that hardly anyone else ever bothers to append their >e-mail address, forcing anybody that wishes to reply to a mail to >direct their response to the entire BritDisc mailing list! Much to my surprise (not!) this prompted a few responses. Thank you to all those people who made their point politely. FOAD to those who made the same point and managed to be condescending, patronising or offensive into the bargain. I'm afraid, however, that everybody's "helpful" suggestion doesn't actually help. The serious point is this: owing to some interaction between the Warwick list server and the Reuters e-mail gateway, Britdisc postings arrive in my mail system with "owner-britdisc" in the "From" field. Details of the original sender are completely absent from the message, the header and the 1.5 KB of IP routing junk that comes with each Britdisc mail. This obviously isn't the way it works for most people, and it is possible that I am the one and only person that experiences this problem. However I doubt it. Therefore I repeat my original request. Please take the extra three seconds and append your e-mail address to any postings. (Or, if you can't be bothered, set up a ".sig" file, which will do it automatically.) Thanks for your attention. Bye for now, Patrick -- patrick.moore@reuters.com