The friendly name is the human part not the computer system part.

In your case your email address shows as - Ian Fairclough
<[log in to unmask]> - the "friendly name" is therefore Ian Fairclough

In some systems, often in academia, the email address is some
reference number for the individual. So you used to see quite often
addresses such as  [log in to unmask]  and if they didn't have a
'friendly name' you wouldn't know whom they were. LISTSERV could
therefore add a name, so when the message appeared on the list, it
would show up as Peter Smith <[log in to unmask]>

AOL generally only has addresses and not friendly names, but I thought
their systems had changed in the last 10 years. I'm in the UK and most
of the AOL users moved to other ISPs.





On 7 November 2015 at 18:02, Ian Fairclough <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Dear LSTOWN-L readers,
>
>
>
> Thanks to those who've contributed to the discussion so far.  Meanwhile, a
> subscriber with a Yahoo account has successfully posted to a list I moderate
> hosted here at Mason, and her email address was changed to what John French
> and Ben Parker have called a token.  Ben said that "... if you reply to that
> address it will be forwarded by LISTSERV to the person's real address."  I
> had already done so, before Ben wrote, to test whether that address worked,
> and I got this response:
>
>
>
> The following message to <[log in to unmask]>
> was undeliverable.
>
>
>
> (In case of concerns, I edited the token slightly for the purposes of this
> message.)
>
>
>
> Also , I'm not sure what the "friendly name" is.  Is it the text that people
> use in conjunction with their email address when subscribing?  Some
> subscribers put "anonymous" instead of a name, and I don't consider that
> friendly!  When they do, I set their subscriptions to conceal, which is what
> I think they intended, and to nopost.  To my knowledge, no such subscribers
> have yet tried to post.
>
>
>
> Sincerely - Ian
>
>
>
> Ian Fairclough
>
> Cataloging and Metadata Services Librarian
>
> George Mason University
>
> 703-993-2938
>
> [log in to unmask]
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