On Fri, 4 Feb 1994 21:22:47 CST Wendy Plotkin said:
>Could you post your explanation, for the rest of us to use?
>
>Thanks,
>
>Wendy Plotkin
>H-Urban
>
 
Wendy, here's the text of the last message I sent out about this problem.
Pardon to all who don't need this...I had a lot of requests for it.
And if anyone has suggestions on how to make it better, I'm all ears...
 
*ADMIN NOTE Re: Included Text Causing Bounces
 
Lately I've been getting a lot of bounced messages from LISTSERV that
could have been avoided.  These are replies to other messages that have
included text from the original message.
 
LISTSERV will reject any mail that has a "Sender:", "From:", or "Reply-To:"
field included in the body of the message UNLESS another character (typically
">") is placed directly before the "Sender:", "From:", or "Reply-To:" keyword.
Thus, ">From: [log in to unmask]" will work, while "> From: So-And-So
@HisNode.Bitnet" will NOT work.  (In the middle of a sentence, they work
fine--it's when LISTSERV thinks they're header lines that they don't.)
 
If your mail software is not placing these included text "tokens" in the
right place by default, either "defuse" the keywords manually or DELETE
the lines completely (since there is no reason for them to be there in
the first place, this is the best option).
 
I used to reforward these messages to the list but it became too much
work and I will no longer do so.  If you don't or won't take the time
to fix these problems, your errors will go into the bitbucket.
 
Thanks for your cooperation.
 
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