Indeed I do, though it wasn’t my first choice, and my reason for switching involved the ‘from’ address, as it happens. I started
with e-mail, but this came in to conflict with my employer’s never ending goal of switching up the three letter acronym we go by
every year or so - EVI -> EDO -> ITT. Although I didn’t really want to change my identity on the list (depending on interface)
(head hunters and some of the other less technically inclined just do a simple search), after I tried and liked the web interface,
but that little box and I just didn’t get along all that well, and then Thunderbird, which didn’t really do it for me either, I
decided it was time to get over myself and just resubscribe. I was all set to do that, until one day when the value of the
inability to post from Outlook became clear when it prevented me from posting something that I thought I had addressed privately but
had not. This seemed like a feature worth keeping, and it’s saved me a few times since from some serious embarrassment, if nothing
else.
mm
Skywing wrote:
Psychic powers!
Though, one can also figure it by looking at the received message headers if you are using the SMTP interface.
A “Newsgroups:” (or “X-Mailer: Lyris ListManager Newsgroup Interface”) header indicates that someone posted via NNTP.
A “X-OSROnline: Posted via forum” header signifies that the message was posted via the web interface. Also, web interface posted messages are always in UTF8 and thus used to break the SMTP interface due to some Lyris silliness.
An “X-Env-Sender” header and a lack of the above indicators means that the message was received via SMTP.
You could produce some interesting demographics as to who uses what interfaces, though. Anton uses the web interface, Don Burn and Martin O’Brien use NNTP, and many of the Microsofties use SMTP (probably for nice automagical Exchange synchronization of read messages across devices, if I could hazard a guess).
-----Original Message-----
From: xxxxx@lists.osr.com [mailto:xxxxx@lists.osr.com] On Behalf Of Michal Vodicka
Sent: Monday, October 20, 2008 1:46 PM
To: Windows System Software Devs Interest List
Subject: RE: RE:[ntdev] 1394 Device Problem
I always wondered how people know your name is Ken 
A way how to find
out who uses which interface to read the list.
Best regards,
Michal Vodicka
UPEK, Inc.
[xxxxx@upek.com, http://www.upek.com]
> -----Original Message-----
> From: xxxxx@lists.osr.com
> [mailto:xxxxx@lists.osr.com] On Behalf Of Skywing
> Sent: Monday, October 20, 2008 5:58 PM
> To: Windows System Software Devs Interest List
> Subject: RE: RE:[ntdev] 1394 Device Problem
>
> Because the “from” address for this mail account is Skywing
> valhallalegends[dot]com (and likewise the “friendly
>> name” associated with outbound messages).
>>
>> The web interface likes to discard the SMTP/NNTP from address
>> and instead use a value from its internal database, which
>> means that you’re not likely to see the actual from value.
>> There is a way to change what the listserv thinks my display
>> name is, but I haven’t gotten around to doing it.
>>
>> I have traditionally used “Skywing” and not my real name with
>> this mail address for some number of years now, and thus
>> haven’t really seen fit to switch it.
>>
>> - S
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: xxxxx@lists.osr.com
>> [mailto:xxxxx@lists.osr.com] On Behalf Of
>> xxxxx@gmail.com
>> Sent: Monday, October 20, 2008 11:25 AM
>> To: Windows System Software Devs Interest List
>> Subject: RE:[ntdev] 1394 Device Problem
>>
>> Ken Johnson wrote:
>>
>>> For almost all practical purposes, an issue affecting XP Home will
>>> also affect XP Pro.
>>>
>>> - S
>> Why do you sign your messages “-S” if your name is Ken Johnson?
>>
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