I have a user in NY who also uses Netcom, or their subsidiary NetAccess and
it does the same thing.  The persons address is:

        [log in to unmask]

but it has been necessary to add them under both that account and

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I have never understood why the address you are given when you are assigned
an account on Netcom, is not the same address as  what is shown on your mail
when you post.  It can also change for no appearant reason from a 2 to 4 or
whatever.


At 01:49 PM 1/24/97 -0500, you wrote:
>I received a message from a subscriber asking why he can't access my
>mailing list.  The problem was one in which there is a slight change
>in his e-mail address.  He has had the problem with the following
>three addresses:
>
>            [log in to unmask]
>            [log in to unmask]
>            [log in to unmask]
>
>The user name has been changed - the computer system has not.
>
>I gave him a standard answer that the listserv software doesn't
>recognize these three addresses as related, but felt foolish doing so.
>I haven't received a response from him yet, but if I got such an
>explanation, my reaction would be "why not?"
>
>If both "johndoe" and the "ix.netcom.com" are identical in all three
>addresses, is there any situation in which they might be different people?
>
>
>                                              Les
>
>