How To Reply to Sender...

[Robert R. Champion]

I just started using this newsgroup and have attempted to reply to a message
from Daiya Mitchell <[email protected]> who replied to one of my
postings.

But, whether I attempt to do it from her email or from the newsgroup, I get
a delivery failure notice:

Hi. This is the qmail-send program at www.vqme.com.
I'm afraid I wasn't able to deliver your message to the following addresses.
This is a permanent error; I've given up. Sorry it didn't work out.

<[email protected]>:
Sorry, I couldn't find any host named mvps.org.invalid. (#5.1.2)

Am I doing something wrong?

Bob C
SF

 

[Clive Huggan]

Just reply to this (microsoft.public.mac.office.word) newsgroup, Bob ‹ Daiya
will see it. No point in replying direct to the regulars.

Cheers,

Clive Huggan
Canberra, Australia
(My time zone is 5-11 hours different from the US and Europe, so my
follow-on responses to those regions can be delayed)
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[little_creature]

Hello,
You need to push the "reply to newsgroup" button instead to "reply to
sender". What you basically do by hitting reply to sendr button is to try to
send email to this address Daiya<[email protected]> Which doesn't
exist. You need to remove words NONSPAM and INVALID from the address above
in order to be able to write to address <[email protected]>. The
words have been added to email addres to avoid spamers and automats which
read the real email address from websites and then sends a lots of emails to
the given aadress. That's why they are highlighted so you well see them and
can delete them whereas automats cannot so they send emails to address
<[email protected]> which deosn't exists.

 

[Daiya Mitchell]

Ditto. But I see most everything posted here.

You can generalize this example to a rule, by the way--random incursions of
capitals into an address on any newsgroup probably means you have to remove
them to really send, and a lot of people use those particular capitals. I'm
not sure the spambots haven't figured out how to parse that set out, in
fact.

In general it's better to post on the group, anyhow--someone else might have
a better answer to further questions than I do, and even a thanks, which
might seem personal to one person, makes it clear to searchers later that
this answer worked to resolve the issue.