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The list - NO PROBLEM


I sent this yesterday from an incorrect address so it didn't make it to
the list.  Figured I'd just ignore this after the other posts, but since
paranoia still seems to be rampant I figured I'd dig it out and try
sending it again.

Basically there isn't anything wrong with the list, and it is perfectly
normal for some people's e-mail to behave differently than others.  It all
has to do with the way they configure their software, and the way that
their/your software interprets things.

- Wayde
  (wallen@its.bldrdoc.gov)

---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2000 05:23:39 -0600 (MDT)
From: J. Wayde Allen <wallen@its.bldrdoc.gov>
To: alt-photo-process-l@skyway.usask.ca
Subject: Re: some new imagery; feedback

On Wed, 11 Oct 2000, Katharine Thayer wrote:

> Christina Z. Anderson wrote:
> > 
>  And why, also, when I try to "reply
> > to" does the email go to you, Keith,  and not the Alt Photo list where it
> > belongs?  Luckily I know how to cut and paste.
> 
> 
> I've been told that the same thing happens with my messages. I certainly
> didn't set it up deliberately to be that way and I have no idea how to
> change it.  So I wouldn't read any meaning into the fact that someone's
> mail operates that way. 

It is because you have set (deliberately or otherwise) the reply-to header
in your e-mail.  The relevant lines from you message header are:

   From: Katharine Thayer <kthayer@pacifier.com>
   Subject: Re: some new imagery; feedback
   To: alt-photo-process-l@skyway.usask.ca
   Resent-Reply-To: alt-photo-process-l@skyway.usask.ca
   Reply-To: kthayer@pacifier.com

Some list servers will trap this line and re-write it.  Evidently the
altphoto list doesn't do this and instead creates the
"Resent-Reply-To" header.  Nothing wrong with this behavior at all.  

If you don't want things to work this way you should edit your options so
that you don't set the reply-to header.  Let's see, your mail header also
says you are using

   X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01-C-MACOS8 (Macintosh; I; PPC)

which translates to netscape on a Mac Power PC.  I don't know this system
particularly well, but there should be a mail settings or options section
where this is set.

In your case, you have the same address in the "from:" line as in the
"reply-to:" line so there is no reason to have a reply-to header.

Yes, this isn't "alt photo", but perhaps posting this will minimize the
speculation and conspiracy theories.

- Wayde
  (wallen@its.bldrdoc.gov)