[FOM] variants of email addresses

[Martin Davis]

Dear FOMers,

An administrative problem I've written about before:

Lots of subscribers post messages with return email addresses different 
from the one under which they are subscribed. When this happens, the 
"mailman" software informs me that it is a post from a non-subscriber. The 
software isn't very subtle about this. Someone subscribed as 
foo at univboo.edu may send a message at the University of Boo from a computer 
called frege and mailman may see the message as coming from 
foo at frege.univboo.edu and flag it is coming from a non-subscriber.

I used to badger people about this. But lately I manually check the 
subscriber list and say nothing if I identify the message as coming from a 
subscriber. And of course when there are ongoing exchanges, I generally 
don't need to check after the first time.

However, to make my work easier, I WOULD VERY VERY MUCH APPRECIATE AN 
EFFORT TO KEEP THE ADDRESS UNDER WHICH YOU'RE SUBSCRIBED IDENTICAL TO THE 
ONE REPORTED AS YOUR RETURN ADDRESS. IF YOU NEED TO CHANGE YOUR ADDRESS ON 
FOM YOU CAN DO SO EASILY AT http://www.cs.nyu.edu/mailman/listinfo/fom

Martin


                           Martin Davis
                    Visiting Scholar UC Berkeley
                      Professor Emeritus, NYU
                          martin at eipye.com
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