[LM_NET] TECH: Forwarding emails and having the original sender getting replies instead of the forwarder

[Jody Newman <newjody@COMCAST.NET>]

Techy Netters:

I'm hoping one of you might be able to answer this for me. I have heard 
of a few instances like what happened to me yesterday and I'm curious 
why it happens.

I got an email of pictures that I wanted to share with others. I've 
found that the best way to do this in Netscape is to hit REPLY to the 
message I want to send. Then I can edit the message any way I like - 
remove headers and change wording and add new stuff to it - or just send 
is as is - I then erase the reply to name (the name of who sent it to 
me) and put in all the names of people I want to send it to. And off it 
goes. For some reason Forwarding it doesn't allow me such latitude.

Anyway, I did this yesterday and when I opened my mailbox today, I had a 
thank you from someone that I hadn't sent it to. Turns out this person 
got the message forwarded to them by one of my recipients. The sender 
uses Yahoo as their mail processor and she simply forwarded to her 
friends. I wrote the person who thanked me to see how she got it and 
replied to it...and she said that it came from the person I'd sent it to 
(the Yahoo person) and that she had simply replied to it. I don't know 
what she uses for a mail server - but her ISP is "rcn.com" and I use 
"comcast.net" and I can't imagine how the person that I sent it to did 
not have their name as the sender and how my name got inserted as the 
sender so that a reply would come back to me?!?

This has been a dangerous event in the past for a couple of people that 
I know and I'm wondering why it happens?!?!?!

Anyone have a solution....and for the rest of you...beware of what you 
send to others...it could come back to haunt you! Just like my mother 
always told me, never put in a letter what you wouldn't want published 
on the front of the NY Times...and she died LONG BEFORE the Internet 
came into being - wise before her time! :-)

Peace to all!

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Jody Newman
Library Aide, retired
Stow, MA
newjody@comcast.net 


“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make 
you something else is the greatest accomplishment.” 
Ralph Waldo Emerson
                                
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