Back to the main page

Mailing List Logs for ShadowRN

Message no. 1
From: Justin Fang <justinf@****.CALTECH.EDU>
Subject: Replying problems
Date: Thu, 17 Oct 1996 11:35:59 -0700
Jaimie Nicholson wrote:

>Hey, that reply thing just about happened to me! It only seems to happen
>when I talk to one of the so-called "newbies". Does that help, or does it
>just muddy the waters even further?

The problem is that the "Reply-To:" headers are set to the original sender's
email address instead of to shadowtk or plotd. The two people who I've
noticed this problem with are Dark Avenger and Pete Sims, both of whom are
posting from petesims.demon.co.uk using Turnpike Version 3.01. Paul J. Adam,
who posts from jrwlynch.demon.co.uk using Turnpike Version 3.00, does not
have this problem, so I suppose the problem is with the configuration of one
specific machine. Unfortunately I can't offer any advice on fixing the
problem since I am unfamiliar with both Turnpike and Demon.

--
Justin Fang (justinf@****.caltech.edu)
This space intentionally left blank.
Message no. 2
From: Pete Sims <petesims@********.DEMON.CO.UK>
Subject: Re: Replying problems
Date: Fri, 18 Oct 1996 01:54:12 +0100
In article <199610171836.LAA10027@*****.ugcs.caltech.edu>, Justin Fang
<justinf@****.CALTECH.EDU> writes
>Jaimie Nicholson wrote:
>
>>Hey, that reply thing just about happened to me! It only seems to happen
>>when I talk to one of the so-called "newbies". Does that help, or does
it
>>just muddy the waters even further?
>
>The problem is that the "Reply-To:" headers are set to the original sender's
>email address instead of to shadowtk or plotd. The two people who I've
>noticed this problem with are Dark Avenger and Pete Sims, both of whom are
>posting from petesims.demon.co.uk using Turnpike Version 3.01. Paul J. Adam,
>who posts from jrwlynch.demon.co.uk using Turnpike Version 3.00, does not
>have this problem, so I suppose the problem is with the configuration of one
>specific machine. Unfortunately I can't offer any advice on fixing the
>problem since I am unfamiliar with both Turnpike and Demon.


I don't know how Paul has got his header information set up, but v3.01
defaults to the mail address of the poster, I've tried rearranging it so
that this is cut out from the mailer, but it refuses to comply. What I
can do to prevent any further confusion is to set up a seperate mailbox,
using the list as the reply to address, however, this may cause
confusion elsewhere, if someone actually wants to reply to me
*privately*. I am in the process of talking to Demon about it at the
moment, and hope to get a solution back from them shortly, sorry for the
problems, a teeny bit beyond my control <Don't you just love new
software> ???

Apologies to all on the list who are experiencing this problem with
either myself or Dark Avenger. It is not intentional I assure you. :)

Pete
--
Pete Sims

Further Reading

If you enjoyed reading about Replying problems, you may also be interested in:

Disclaimer

These messages were posted a long time ago on a mailing list far, far away. The copyright to their contents probably lies with the original authors of the individual messages, but since they were published in an electronic forum that anyone could subscribe to, and the logs were available to subscribers and most likely non-subscribers as well, it's felt that re-publishing them here is a kind of public service.

Thwap!