-=PCTechTalk=- Re: when sending emails.
- From: "Cris" <cris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 3 Mar 2005 10:53:57 -0500
ahh - ok. Well - when Mike put in the moderator - I could
still get to his address. So I figured that meant the
actuall address still showed up when you went into
properties and the source. At least I thought it was his
real address! maybe not!!
It isn't the person you are sending the e-mail to that is
the concern. they can know it is from you. It is the umteen
other people who will see it because they don't know how or
bother to remove all of the forwards. Plus, those who
forward everything as an attachment. I used to think that
AOL HAD to forward as an attachment, because that is the
only way I EVER get e-mail from AOL friends. However,
someone on this list told me that isn't true - that they
don't have to forward as attachments, and there actually is
a way for AOL customer's to remove that information. It must
be difficult though, because they sure don't do it!!!
Cris
----- Original Message -----
From: ~OoO~
To: pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Thursday, March 03, 2005 9:23 AM
Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Re: when sending emails.
Actually, that's incorrect. I can put whatever I want in the
FROM address,
and going into the properties will NOT give you the correct
email address
its coming from. You can see my IP address and my ISP that I
used, most of
the time, but if I don't enter my email address you'll never
see it in the
properties cause the information was never sent out. Even
the ISP doesn't
know what it is, in a sense. They only know what account of
theirs was used
to send the email. They haven't a clue if it was me, my
wife, my son, etc.
About not showing your address and the reasoning... well,
yes, I can see WHY
you wouldn't want people to see it... but, why would you
send anyone a joke
or article or anything interesting for that matter without
your email
address? Unless you're entering who its from in the body,
sending mail
without a FROM address doesn't seem very useful for me
(unless with
malicious or deceiving intent), cause... well, let me give
you me, for
example. If I receive an email and its from someone I don't
know or from a
blank email addy, I don't even bother with the REPLYING bit
to see what
shows up in the address field. I just delete it. I don't
bother with it. I
would assume most people are the same.
---Troth
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