I would buy that Daniel, except that I myself had Netcom at one point in time, and spent hours on the phone with them trying different configurations and none of them seemed to fix the problem. At 07:02 PM 1/24/97 GMT, you wrote: >Les Moskowitz <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >>I haven't received a response from him yet, but if I got such an >>explanation, my reaction would be "why not?" > >Because it's interpreted by a computer, not a person. What's the >difference between [log in to unmask] and [log in to unmask] >Who knows? Maybe one is John and the other is Jim. > >Often the solution is to properly configure the E-mail sofware. It may >be that the person configured his software to say that his E-mail >address was "jsmith" instead of "[log in to unmask]". When a message goes >out, the host E-mail software, seeing that the "From" address is not >fully qualified, changes it to reflect the name of the computer that >happened to answer the phone when jsmith called it. It might not have >touched the From address at all had it been fully qualified from the >start. > >-- >Daniel >[log in to unmask] > >