>I just got the following in my mailbox. The strange thing is that >it is (according to the mail program on our system) from "Listserv". >Normally, mail sent to a list is from "listname". > >I can't see this being a problem with our mail program, nor our >mailer softare. It does concern me though, because I don't want >our users replying to this type of mail with our answer command. > >My question is: Is this a problem that should be resolved locallly >(ie here at CMR001), or it is the result of something another >node is doing, or is it a problem with listserv (unlikely)? > >Below is a copy of the message, the lines starting with >> are >generated by our mail program, and the Received: by our mailer. >The rest is standard net mail stuff. > >Thanx for your time, > >Michael Brown ><[log in to unmask]> > >>> Sent: 03/28/90 17:27 Rcvd: 03/28/90 17:27 Number: 54 >>> To: Michael Brown From: [log in to unmask] >>> Subject: <> >> >>Received: by CMR001 (Mailer); Wed, 28 Mar 90 17:27:33 EST >> >>Date: Wed, 28 Mar 90 08:21:21 EST >>From: U93_KTUKOVIN@SITVXB (Admiral Tikmok --- addressing you from VAX) >>To: pcserv-l@rpiecs >>Subject: RE: Locking the list? >>X-VMS-To: Q%"pcserv-l@rpiecs" >>Message-Id: <9022882121.2580a17e.U93_KTUKOVIN> >> >> >>Are we going to screen out only novice computer command or are >>to screen out both computer command and questions? >> >>------------ >> Kinda nice to see another CP6 user. I don't know whose CP6 BitNet software you're running, but they all share a somewhat common acestery so it probably behaves like ours in this case. The clue is the blank line between the 'Received:' header (added by your mailer) and the other 822 headers. This means what came in to you started with a blank line. You mailer sez "I'll look at everything in the body until a blank line and see if it's an 822 header". Since the first line is blank, no 822 headers were found. The CP6 MAIL Subject: header is made 'null' (our software leaves it blank, yours must do <>). For the CP6 MAIL From: header he uses the from info in the transport envelope (SMTP or RSCS as available). Apparently the originator (sender, whatever) in the envelope was [log in to unmask] Question remains - how did that blank line get in there? Perhaps from the guy who sent it in the first place and not LISTSERV. Mark