posting on behalf ...
On Wed, Mar 17, 2004 at 09:22:01AM -0500, Olson, Margaret wrote:
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| I like to use "return address" or "envelope from" and "from", because there
| is a close analogy to postal mail. If you look at a piece of personal postal
| mail, the return address is very likely to be the same as the person who
| composed the letter and sent it to you. If they differ, it's mostly likely
| that the return address is in some sense a subset of the sender's address;
| it may contain just the household name ("olson") or even just the address,
| but in any case if it is returned the return address will get the mail back
| to originator.
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| If you look at a bill or other piece of non-personal mail, be it a bill, an
| advertisement, or a begging letter from a charity, it's highly likely that
| the return address and the from are different - for all kinds of reasons
| that pretty much apply to bulk email as well. The organization that sent the
| mail and handles delivery problems is not the same as the one that composed
| and originated the message.
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