The answer to all these kinds of irritations is threefold. It is your
settings. It is jiscmail's settings. It is the mail programme you use.
Email arrives with you carrying shed loads of information about the sender,
the programme they use, the route and programmes used by servers in the
route. It also contains information you gave the sender, if it is a reply or
from a list of which you are a member. Almost all of this is suppressed, but
you may have seen a chunk of it if you ever sent an email that did not get
to its destination and was returned.
Locally, you can set your machine to display just the name of the sender, if
there is one. Personally, I prefer the longer version, with name and email
address. Email programmes differ as to how you do this, but it is usually
through 'tools' 'options' or 'preferences' menus. At jiscmail, you can set
your email prefernces just to display names when its messages arrive with
you. Changing the settings is the same process, but you do it on the
jiscmail Web site.
It is a good idea to save the email adresses of people whose ideas interest
you in your 'contacts' folder. Not only do you then have them available
without trawling thorugh old messages, but the machine will automatically
fill in the address if you start typing in the first few characters (well,
most programmes will anyway).
Stephen Rennie
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Amanda Poyner [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Monday, April 14, 2003 5:43 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: address
>
> Hello Helen,
>
> Well I'm not sure whether it's your settings or not. I thought the list
> was just set up that way, so that some back channel talking could go on.
> Maybe this is a question for Steve Rennie?
>
> Best Wishes
> Amanda
>
> On Sunday, April 13, 2003, at 09:11 pm, helen hannick wrote:
>
>
> Dear Amanda,
> you write ;;;
> Everyone's personal email address appears at the top of the posting.
> For instance I know that yours is [log in to unmask] right?
>
> This is my address...but on my postings your address doesn't
> appear..nor does many others. Maybe it's just my pc settings?
>
> and good points made in your posting..time to play hopscotch in the
> chicken coop?
>
> Regards
> Helen
>
>
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