Vickie Banks asked: > We've been having a discussion about From: lines on moderated > lists. When I forward on EDTECH messages, the moderator's > address appears in an Approved-by: line, the list address in > the Sent: and Reply-to: lines, and the original poster's > address in the From: line. . . . > Does anyone have a simple guide for what conditions will > generate what sort of From: lines -- and any settings that > can help get them the way we want them? And Doug Winship replied: > I use Pine most of the time, but can't use it for forwarding to > the list mail I get as editor as my address will go in the From: > field. So I switch to Elm and use the "bounce" feature. Unless > they study the full header the subscribers never know it came > through me. Doug gave a fairly complete answer; I have just a bit of explanation to add. With Elm and many other mail programs there are two different ways to send a message you have received to someone else: (1) forwarding and (2) resending. When a message is *forwarded*, the mail system creates an entirely new email message (with your address in the From: line) and puts the original message (usually with the original headers) in the text of the message. When the list server gets a forwarded message, all it sees is the From: line from the moderator. The From: line of the original sender is not anywhere in the header, so the list server cannot find it. When a message is *resent*, the original header is used. The mail system just adds a "Resent-from" line to the header. When the list server gets this, it finds the original sender's From: line. Your moderators need to find a mailer that supports resending. As Doug mentioned, Elm supports resending--the command named "bounce" does it. I have good news for Doug: the latest version of Pine also supports resending. On VMS systems, PMDF Mail supports resending, but VMSmail does not. If you can't find a system that supports resending, your moderators can copy the from: line into the text of each message they send to the list server. With the volume of EDTECH, this is not an attractive alternative. I run a list with a team of moderators. Our solution to this is to have everyone telnet to one account that has Elm. Good Luck. Peace, Dan << Daniel D. Wheeler Internet: [log in to unmask] >> << University of Cincinnati Bitnet: wheeler@ucbeh >>