I don't understand the problem you are trying to solve.  If the problem
is that the poster's address doesn't show up for some people who use
weird mail clients, we provide the DUALhdr option for them.  Otherwise
I simply don't see why it's necessary or desirable to put the poster's
name and address in the bottom banner.

Nathan

On Sun, 8 Aug 1999 23:49:34 -0700 Jessica Rasku said:
>On Mon, 9 Aug 1999, Ben Parker wrote:
>
>> On Sun, 8 Aug 1999 23:06:20 -0700, Liz Marr <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>
>> >I've tried something simular to:
>> >
>> >Message from &USERNAME (&WHOM),
>> >
>> >in a banner and it doesn't work.
>>
>> This does not work.  The reason is that at the point in LISTSERV's message
>> processing where the TOP_BANNER and/or BOTTOM_BANNER are evaluated and
>possibly
>> added to the message, the &USERNAME (&WHOM) are not yet known.  They are
>> evaluated later in the process.  Since these variables are undefined at the
>> time, they cannot be used for this kind of substitution.
>
>        Would it be possible to in the future make something like this
>possible?  I don't PERSONALY like it, but it's a feature that I think
>would probably be used.  By possible, I really do mean ``reasonably
>possible'', that is, I know it almost certianly could be done, just not if
>it would be worth it to do it...
>
>                                                        Jessica