On Wed, Mar 17, 2004 at 09:32:42AM -0500, Meng Weng Wong wrote:
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.
In the 'Good Old Days' (TM), when one got a letter, there were addresses of the
sender and the recipient on the paper of the letter itself. These were called
the
'inside addresses', as opposed to whatever was on the envelope. On the other
hand,
the class of current internet users that might recognize the terminology is
rapidly approaching zero.
|
| 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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