[Dixonary] OT: On Behalf Of

[Guerri Stevens]

I am now seeing the phrase "on behalf of" appended to quoted messages in
some replies. I think only in Michael's messages. Is this new? A Google
feature? Perhaps a Republican presidential candidate's PAC or Super Pac?
Oh, wait, those would never say on whose behalf they are addressing us.

--
Guerri

[Dodi Schultz]

On 1/21/2012 6:40 PM, Guerri Stevens wrote:
> I am now seeing the phrase "on behalf of" appended to quoted messages in
> some replies. I think only in Michael's messages. Is this new? A Google
> feature?

I've been seeing that on MOST Dixonary messages (it wasn't on yours), right
along. Some seem to be FROM the player (as, you on this occasion) TO
dixonary, while others are FROM dixonary ON BEHALF OF a player. I've never
been aware of why.

—Dodi

[Daniel Widdis]

That's a standard display in Microsoft Outlook. It appears when the
message header "Sender:" is different than the "From:" address. It
appears in professional contexts when an administrative assistant sends
mail for an executive that has authorized them to read/reply from their
email box. Somewhere along the line, GoogleGroups adopted the same
headers.

It's actually to my benefit with my client, MS Outlook 2011 (for the Mac).
I can actually hit "Reply to all" and both the Dixonary list (Sender) and
original author (From) appear on my To: line. I just delete the one I
don't want, and I can reply either to the list or privately.

Not all clients are so friendly on a reply-to-all.


--
Dan




On 1/21/12 4:35 PM, Dodi Schultz wrote:

>On 1/21/2012 6:40 PM, Guerri Stevens wrote:
>> I am now seeing the phrase "on behalf of" appended to quoted messages
>>in
>> some replies. I think only in Michael's messages. Is this new? A Google
>> feature?
>
>I've been seeing that on MOST Dixonary messages (it wasn't on yours),
>right
>along. Some seem to be FROM the player (as, you on this occasion) TO
>dixonary, while others are FROM dixonary ON BEHALF OF a player. I've
>never
>been aware of why.
>
>‹Dodi
>

[Dodi Schultz]

On 1/21/2012 8:54 PM, Daniel Widdis wrote:
> That's a standard display in Microsoft Outlook.

It also appears in Thunderbird.

Sometimes.

—Dodi