At 08:02 PM 4/7/97 +0200, you wrote:
>that this is necessary to the discussions of the list.  Sometimes Listserv
>plucks this information from our subscribers list and puts it in the
>"from:" portion of the header and other times it does not.  I cannot seem
>to discern any pattern to this.  For example, it used to put my own info in
>there and now it no longer does, but continues to use it for my
>co-listowner.  Does this depend upon the member's mail client or is there
>some way to get listserv to always include this information in the "from:"
>portion of the header as it appears in our list of subscribers?

If the member's mail software has a "from" name in it, whatever that may
be, listserv will use it.  If not, it will grab it from the subscriber
list.  There is no necessary connection between the two forms that anyone
uses.  We've all seen addresses in the "from" field that are very long,
list phone numbers and office addresses, etc, etc.

>Also, does anyone know if there are plans to be able to have a nicer member
>list?  We had hoped for one with the upgrade!  Forty characters is tough to
>squeeze one's name, affiliation and geographic location into:-)  I sure
>wish that this was "friendlier"!

Listserv is designed to perform as the world's best mailing list software,
and NOT to be an address book, personal information manager, scheduler, or
web browser.  And I trust that the esteemed Eric will keep it that way.

I'd vote against such a change for two reasons:  not needed, and most
people don't make their membership lists available publicly anyway, for
obvious reasons.

cheers

cyclops



Dan Lester
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