From britdisc-owner@csv.warwick.ac.uk Wed Mar 5 14:50:07 1997 Received: from thistle.csv.warwick.ac.uk by pansy.csv.warwick.ac.uk with ESMTP id OAA23742; Wed, 5 Mar 1997 14:49:37 GMT Received: by thistle.csv.warwick.ac.uk id OAA02945; Wed, 5 Mar 1997 14:45:47 GMT Received: from clover.csv.warwick.ac.uk by thistle.csv.warwick.ac.uk with ESMTP id OAA02939; Wed, 5 Mar 1997 14:45:38 GMT From: Chris.Patten@octel.com Received: from gw3.octel.com by clover.csv.warwick.ac.uk with SMTP id OAA21735; Wed, 5 Mar 1997 14:44:18 GMT Received: (from daemon@localhost) by gw3.octel.com (8.6.10/8.6.12) id GAA09084 for <britdisc@csv.warwick.ac.uk>; Wed, 5 Mar 1997 06:41:01 -0800 Received: from cornus.cssd.octel.com(148.147.84.200) by gw3.octel.com via smap (V1.3) id sma009082; Wed Mar 5 06:40:38 1997 Received: by cornus.cssd.octel.com with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Server Internet Mail Connector Version 4.0.994.63) id <01BC2973.30885470@cornus.cssd.octel.com>; Wed, 5 Mar 1997 14:40:37 -0000 Message-ID: <c=GB%a=_%p=OCTEL%l=CORNUS-970305144036Z-284@cornus.cssd.octel.com> To: <britdisc@csv.warwick.ac.uk>, <patrick.moore@reuters.com> Subject: RE: E-mail whinge! Date: Wed, 5 Mar 1997 14:40:36 -0000 X-Mailer: Microsoft Exchange Server Internet Mail Connector Version 4.0.994.63 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-britdisc@csv.warwick.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Three points: 1) Your gateway doesn't work properly - not our fault. 2) The whole idea of mailing lists is you don't have to explicitly add recipients. I use quite a few and have never seen the practice you suggest. 3) A .sig file is a mail client-specific device which is probably limited to UNIX mail clients. Chris. >---------- >From: Patrick Moore 5884[SMTP:patrick.moore@reuters.com] >Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 1997 11:16 AM >To: britdisc >Subject: Re: E-mail whinge! > >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 > >