On Fri, 28 Oct 2005, Kevin Parris wrote: > A subscriber is asking how to "get" the original author email address > for a message received through one of our lists. The problem of what the subscriber sees in his header, usually abbreviataed, and what his email system automatically "replies" to is a very old one. I think it is because some email systems make unwarranted assumptions (Sender: = From:, maybe Sender: = From: = Reply-To:). For this reason I long ago made it a policy for all of my lists that all postings *must* be signed with the full name of the poster *and* the poster's email address. When someone forgets, I add the info. Those who consistently do not sign per the list rules do not get to post. All of my lists are set to * Reply-To= Both,Respect . Douglas Winship [log in to unmask]