Agree with most of what you said here. But I had a different interpretation of the facts with respect to the “via EAG” issue than you did.
Your impression is that:
if I recommended (e.g.) Kit to EAG and he doesn’t reply a couple of times, he gets an email with ‘greetings from Greg’ or similar in the subject heading
My impression is that “Greg Lewis (via EAG)” would appear in the “from” line. (In the way that email clients often replace the sender’s email address with their name.
If I understand correctly then the practice strikes me as much more likely to deceive a recipient.
It’d be helpful if you could clear this up. If I was confused and you actually just put “Greetings from FirstName LastName” in the subject line or some such, I’d have a substantially weaker reaction.
Agree with most of what you said here. But I had a different interpretation of the facts with respect to the “via EAG” issue than you did.
Your impression is that:
My impression is that “Greg Lewis (via EAG)” would appear in the “from” line. (In the way that email clients often replace the sender’s email address with their name.
If I understand correctly then the practice strikes me as much more likely to deceive a recipient.
@Kerry_Vaughan:
It’d be helpful if you could clear this up. If I was confused and you actually just put “Greetings from FirstName LastName” in the subject line or some such, I’d have a substantially weaker reaction.
The third email has the sender name of “[fname] [lname] via EAG” but with hello@eaglobal.org as the email address.
Thanks. That’s what I thought.
Thanks for the correction, Howie and Kerry—I’ll edit my original comment.