There may be a way for AOLers but if many people are like an 84 year old person I know who REFUSES to learn unless she stumbles into something.....and with her memory the way it is anymore.....it's too much to ask to change anything. She went BACK to AOL because she swore she couldn't learn another ISP program. She is used to AOL so she went back. hmmmm ----- Original Message ----- From: "Cris" <cris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Thursday, March 03, 2005 7:53 AM Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Re: when sending emails. 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 -- <Please delete this line and everything below.> To unsub or change your email settings: //www.freelists.org/webpage/pctechtalk To access our Archives: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PCTechTalk/messages/ //www.freelists.org/archives/pctechtalk/ For more info: //www.freelists.org/cgi-bin/list?list_id=pctechtalk -- <Please delete this line and everything below.> To unsub or change your email settings: //www.freelists.org/webpage/pctechtalk To access our Archives: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PCTechTalk/messages/ //www.freelists.org/archives/pctechtalk/ For more info: //www.freelists.org/cgi-bin/list?list_id=pctechtalk