Yesterday I got a message in a YahooGroups mailing list from a friend -- let's
call him Pete.

Pete's message began

ON BEHALF OF DAVE

I immediately wondered why Pete was writing on behalf of Dave.

Had Dave's computer crashed?

Or, worse, had he been taken ill, had an accident, been kidnapped or arrested?

So I asked Pete why he was writing on Dave's behalf, and was Dave OK, and he
said he wasn't writing on Dave's behalf at all -- the computer had put that
phrase in automatically. He assumed that it was something done by YahooGroups.

I'm a member of several YahooGroups mailing lists, and I've belonged to some
for years, and I've never seen it put in anything that before.

I asked Pete what mail reader he was using, and he said he was using MS
Outlook.

I was aware that many Outlook users have problems in participating in mailing
lists because of Outlooks deficient quoting system. I know that many of them
have solved these problems by using Quotefix

http://home.in.tum.de/~jain/software/outlook-quotefix/

and recommended Quotefix to Pete.

But none of those who have had the quoting problems have mentioned this
particular problem -- of some software, somewhere along the line, inserting
text to the effect that the poster of a message was writing on behalf of
someone else.

Perhaps some prankster has hacked the YahooGroups list server,

But whatever the cause may be, has anyone else had similar problems when using
Outlook as a mailing list reader, whether with the YahooGroups or any other
listserv?

Is it a problem with Outlook, or with the server, or with both?

And if you have found a solution, please let me know, so I can tell Pete.




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Steve Hayes from Tshwane, South Africa
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