At 1/12/98 05:48 AM , M. LeBlanc wrote: >Hello all. > >Looking for assistance in figuring out something I've never >seen before. Hope someone can help to figure this one out. > >A subscriber wrote to me because he rec'd an unusual receipt >to a messsage that he posted. Besides a return receipt showing >that the message had been rec'd by hwy61-l, he also rec'd one >that *another subscriber* had rec'd his message. > >This is pretty unusual isn't it? Does anyone know under what >circumstances this would happen? > >I asked him for full headers, but am enclosing what he >sent. > >Any and all help figuring out what's going on here will be >appreciated. Simple- someone out there is using a mailer that interpreted the original sender as the proper address to send a return receipt to. It's just like those autoresponders that send the originator the "out of office" notification. I expect someone else on the list can identify the mailer from the receipt format. It's a wide, wonderful internet. Philo Finger for public key [log in to unmask] Take my anonymity questionnaire: http://www.radix.net/~philo/Anonymity/qform.html =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Of course a SWO who lost an arm is unfit for service; How the heck is he gonna stab his peers in the back while strangling the morale out of his division? -anonymous