Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!DKAUNI2.BITNET!UI0T From: UI0T@DKAUNI2.BITNET (Thomas Koenig) Newsgroups: comp.lang.modula2 Subject: mail confusion Message-ID: <"89-12-05-13:48:15.35*UI0T"@DKAUNI2.BITNET> Date: 5 Dec 89 13:03:47 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Reply-To: Modula2 List Organization: The Internet Lines: 21 X-Unparsable-Date: Tue, 5 Dec 89 13:48:00 LCL Sean Brunnoc asked: > Does mail to BITNET sites from InterNet automatically get > posted? No. I think something else happened. You (and a few people more, this is why I am posting instead of mailing this) probably used the 'reply' feature of your mailer. Unfortunately, the mails coming from the list contain a Reply-To: - line in the header, so the reply goes out to distribution, which, in this case, is exactly where you don't want it to go. This is quite a common mistake (I've made it myself several times), but I don't see how it can easily be corrected without inventing a computer which can read one's mind... By the way, the above is IN NO WAY intended as a flame, just as an explanation, and to keep other people from falling into the same trap. Thomas Koenig UI0T@DKAUNI2.BITNET UI0T%DKAUNI2.BITNET@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU (soon: new address, old machine) UI0T@IBM3090.RZ.UNI-KARLSRUHE.DBP.DE 'Ich dachte nicht, ich untersuchte.' Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen