In senile email clients (and senile *user configurations* of the same email clients), the clients should only cite the email address if the "From" field has no friendly name.
On every forum I found so far, this friendly name is mostly absent in the "From" field. Assuming both your email client and your configuration for it are senile, which is the default for most cases, your email client is behaving correctly. Here follows a message for those who are still unsure about usability of mailing lists: In one hand, if the website maintainers decides to go mad and say "OK, we'll remove the mailing lists and use only forums", then people will still get the poster's address anyways if the forum has notification system. Furthermore, if the maintainers go the hardened route and also decide to either remove the notifications or put a non-existing or "noreply" address in the "From" field, then in the first case you lose the email notifications, and in the second you lose the convenience of answering by email (thus requiring everyone to use the website) just to answer a "Hi". ;) This was similarly discussed in libreplanet-discuss mailing list sometime ago (see [1]). The reference in [1] has both a link to that discussion and a text written by the person who has the blog and which also appears in the discussion, when person refers to "Contrast that with websites: if I have to write anything substantial, I often have to write it in my editor first and paste it in." this is *probably* because one will have to reload the page *before* sending if writting an entire wall of text directly in the web browser or taking more than 5min to do stuff, because otherwise the website will tell you that "the connection expired, do everything again". Finally, also see the paragraph before the "Thank you." in [1], it's more important nowadays than "responsible design" (web design term). [1] <https://mikegerwitz.com/2017/06/Don-t-force-me-to-use-your-tools-on-the-Web>. 2017-11-23T01:25:51+0100 Ignacio Agulló wrote: > > I prefer to handle the messages through an e-mail client, it's so > much easier for me. However, it has this inconvenience - when you reply > to someone, like now, the e-mail client automatically quotes the message > and shows the authors e-mail address on top. I suppose that this is > what happened with this case. > > As for myself, when I started doing that, people would tell me that > they didn't like that, and that I should edit the e-mail address out, so > I logged in to the forum and edited it out. Since then, I edit out the > e-mail address before sending the messages, like now. I suppose it > takes constant reminding.
