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From: bill@twwells.com (T. William Wells)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: Re: Responding to E-Mail Address
Message-ID: <1989Aug25.134358.10303@twwells.com>
Date: 25 Aug 89 13:43:58 GMT
References: <1107@adobe.UUCP>
Organization: None, Ft. Lauderdale, FL
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In article <1107@adobe.UUCP> asanders@adobe.com (Alan Sanders) writes:
: I know that E-Mail address have been discussed at length in this newsgroup,
: but my question is this: I often sent E-Mail to the address given in the
: Sender line and had it bounce back to me with the message: Host unknown.
: Frequently there is no other Mail address provided in the article I am
: responding to, so what to do?

Any article is going to have a From: line and a Path: line in the
article header. It may also have a Reply-To: line. The latter
contains the preferred address when replying to; From: is next, and
Path: should be used only when you are desperate. And, of course, if
the article text contains e-mail instructions, you should follow
those in preference to any in the headers.

The Sender: line refers to an agent that sent the message on behalf
of the author. Sending to that agent isn't likely to get your message
to the author, unless the person behind the agent is feeling nice
that day. Do not send messages to the address in Sender:.

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