As I said, I use the web interface to reply, rather than send an email to the list server. Perhaps that is what causes the sender's address to appear that way. For my post that you referenced, this is what I see in the web interface: Subject: Re: Posting issues - why do some posts have anonymous FROM-addresses? From: Tom Marchant <[email protected]> Reply To: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]>
I am set to NOMAIL so I can't look at the email headers at the moment. -- Tom Marchant On Wed, 10 Apr 2024 08:52:50 -0700, Tom Brennan <[email protected]> wrote: >Your own email is an example :) Here's what I see using Thunderbird: >https://www.mildredbrennan.com/mvs/email_address.png > >On 4/10/2024 8:30 AM, Tom Marchant wrote: >> On Wed, 10 Apr 2024 13:50:03 +0100, Jeremy Nicoll >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> I just noticed that some posts here show the poster's own email address >>> whereas others have something like >>> >>> [email protected] >> >> I haven't seen that. Can you show an example? I have seen attributions in >> some posts that look like that, but not an actual From: address. >> I use the Listserv web interface exclusively to see posts and respond to >> them. >>> >>> Does the latter indicate a post made via newsgroup bit.listserv.ibm-main >>> (if the gateway between NNTP & listserv still works?) while the former >>> indicate "posts" made directly to the listserv by email? >> >> I thought that the gateway between Listserv and Netnews was one way. That >> is, IBM-Main is sent to bit.listserv.ibm-main, but posts to >> bit.listserv.ibm-main are not sent to the mailing list. >> > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- >For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, >send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
