Depending on the software you use for dealing with e-mail, you
may or may not have any idea of the problem some of us have
been having with mail from PEN-L lately.
The point is this. E-mail messages carry a header which contains
copious information, much of it redundant from a human point of
view. Among the 'fields' in the header are: Received from, Return-
path, Originator, Sender, Reply to, and From.
Now PEN-L messages identify PEN as the source in several of these
fields, but not in "From" or "Reply to". Sensible e-mail software,
such as PINE, displays by default only the content of those
fields that are likely to be relevant to the user: Date, From, To,
Subject, cc., and Reply to (if different from "From").
Since with its current settings, PEN-L has the person who actually
wrote the message in both the From and Reply to fields, PINE only
displays the former, with no indication that the message is from the
list.
Solutions for PINE users: (1) If the folks at Chico can change
things so that PEN appears in the Reply to field, that would be
great. (2) There may be a way of configuring PINE so that it
displays the contents of the Sender field. That would identify
the source OK, but still means that we wouldn't have the option
of using the Reply command to dash off a response to the list,
without having to type in the PEN address.
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Allin Cottrell
Department of Economics
Wake Forest University
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
(910) 759-5762
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