DOS ain't dead

Yes I was the originator of the "stumbeled upon"
thread now fixed.

I did some poking around and found at least one post
from a "steve" at my email address WHICH IS NOT FROM ME.

THE SUBJECT was Vetusware. This post was not by ME.

I use the handle "w3a537" not "steve".

Could you please fix this,

postmaster@localhost

Thanks ..

Edit by rr: removed e-mail address for privacy

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> Yes I was the originator of the "stumbeled upon"
> thread now fixed.

OK

> I did some poking around and found at least one post
> from a "steve" at my email address WHICH IS NOT FROM ME.

How did you find that? E-mail addresses don't show up on the forum.
Could please give me a deep link to this posting?

> THE SUBJECT was Vetusware. This post was not by ME.

There's no such post with 'Vetusware' in the subject line. Nobody blamed you.

> I use the handle "w3a537" not "steve".
>
> Could you please fix this,

What should be fixed exactly?

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I was poking around and I put "vetusware" in the search window
and 6 or 8 hits showed up.

One of them was from "steve".

Because I am known as "w3a537" not "steve" I clicked the EMAIL box,

MY EMAIL ADDRESS SHOWED UP. However this message WAS NOT from me as
I have no knowledge of the subject matter.

So I asked to have "steve" "postmaster@localhost" deleted.

Now this particular message says "w3a537" "postmaster@localhost"
which isn't right either. But not particularry important eithert.

There are probably other instances of this kind of error on the
forum as well.

Steve Broshears ...

Edit by rr: removed e-mail address for privacy

> I was poking around and I put "vetusware" in the search window
> and 6 or 8 hits showed up.
>
> One of them was from "steve".

I think that's the late Steve Adelewitz of the Short Stop DOS pages.

> Because I am known as "w3a537" not "steve" I clicked the EMAIL box,
>
> MY EMAIL ADDRESS SHOWED UP. However this message WAS NOT from me as
> I have no knowledge of the subject matter.

If you are logged in, apparently it will auto-fill in your "sender" name and e-mail, not the person whom you are messaging. For me it says "Rugxulo", etc.

> So I asked to have "blah" "blah.blah@gmail.blah" deleted.
>
> Now this particular message says "w3a537" "blah.blah@gmail.blah"
> which isn't right either. But not particularry important eithert.
>
> There are probably other instances of this kind of error on the
> forum as well.

Maybe I'm wrong, but I think it's not a bug, you're just confused.

> If you are logged in, apparently it will auto-fill in your "sender" name
> and e-mail, not the person whom you are messaging. For me it says
> "Rugxulo", etc.

Exactly.

> > There are probably other instances of this kind of error on the
> > forum as well.
>
> Maybe I'm wrong, but I think it's not a bug, you're just confused.

I think so too.

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> MY EMAIL ADDRESS SHOWED UP. However this message WAS NOT from me as
> I have no knowledge of the subject matter.

As Rugxulo already said, forum software fills in the sender's data. The recipient's name or e-mail address stays hidden.

> Steve Broshears ...
>
> Edit by rr: removed e-mail address for privacy

I deleted your e-mail address from your posting again.

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