Hi Jean, @11-Jan-2004, 17:04 +0100 (11-Jan 16:04 UK time) Jean Site [JS] in mid:[EMAIL PROTECTED] said to Marck:
>>> Please fix your "name mangling" macro. It keeps using the email >>> address instead of the name to form the '[Name] on TheBat! UDL' >>> part of the address line. JS> I am a beginner I don't understand the meaning of this sentence Many of us "old timers" here use an address/name mangler to get messages submitted to lists looking more appropriate. TB, by default, when replying writes to the name of the author at the reply address required. When you replied to me, your message was addressed to "Marck D Pearlstone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>". Now, many purists say this is bad, wrong and irresponsible. It implies that my email address is [EMAIL PROTECTED] This can cause offence and mistakes. These purists address their own on-list replies without any real name attributions at all. I find that even more confusing. It's nice to see to whom a reply has been directed before reading it. The compromise solution many of us use is to 'mangle' the real name as I have done yours to read "Jean Site on TBUDL" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. This makes it perfectly clear that the email address is not yours but that the reply is addressed to you as an individual and, more specifically, as a member of the TBUDL. This is usually done in a macro, used in reply templates for a specific address book groups, namely that used to hold the addresses of mailing lists to which I subscribe. The macro I use looks like this: %REM='List TO replacement macro by Marck'%- %_addr='"%ABOFROMNamePrefix(%ABOFROMName(%OFROMNAME))%- on %ABOREPLYHANDLE(%ABOREPLYFIRSTNAME)" <%OREPLYADDR>'%- %TO=''%TO='%_addr'%- I configure my address book list entries to have "List" as the surname and the list name as the forename. I then put a short form of the list name in the Handle entry. The macro set above also makes reference to anything I already know about the real name of the author in my address book before relying on whatever nickname they may have used on the list. Does this help? -- Cheers -- .\\arck D Pearlstone -- List moderator TB! v2.03 Beta/31 on Windows XP 5.1.2600 Service Pack 1 '
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