Re: Hospital's Monopolization Claim Proceeds Against Surgical Center

From: art fougner, md (dean@thehuffpeople.net)
Tue Dec 28 10:51:14 2004


..

That is a very intersting problem. It has been happening now for a number of months, perhaps more. I have written to the OB-GYN-L people and my internet provider about it. No useful response from either.

For some reason, OB-GYN-L will not post messages that I send from my regular e-mail account or from their (OG-GYN-L) own web page. Therefore, the only way to get a note posted is to send it through my web-mail account.

When a note goes out through my web-mail account, it gives a bizzare FROM header, something like:

"" <dean@thehuffpeople.net>

My name (Dean Huffman) should go between the two quote marks. They do not put it there, however. Hence my name appears to most e-maiil programs as an empty string (not a string with blanks in it, but an empty or NULL string). Somehow at OB-GYN-L they process that empty string to change it to the name of some other OB-GYN-L'er (apparently the previous person to post). OBGYN.NET cannot seem to handle the FROM header that my provider uses, and my provider cannot seem to put my name between the quote marks, making a more usable FROM header. Hence SOMEBODY ELSE always appears to be sending my notes. Bizzaare

Sorry.

The only other solution I can think of is to start a junk e-mail account with hotmail or somebody else. That might fix it. I will give it a try.

Dean Huffman

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Quoting "art fougner, md" <evsono@pipeline.com>:

> Am curious re: how Dean's posts managed to scarf up the name id of the
> previous poster ... explanations pls?
>
> art
>
> At Tue, 28 Dec 2004, art fougner, md wrote:
> >
> >..
> >
> >Hospital's Monopolization Claim Proceeds Against Surgical Center
> >
> >New York Law Journal
> >
> >In a decision underscoring a national debate over the delivery of health
> care
> >services, a federal judge in New York is permitting an ambulatory surgery
> >center to pursue a monopolization claim against a community hospital. An
> >attorney for the ambulatory center said this is one of the first cases to
> test
> >how far a hospital may go to protect itself from competition before it runs
> >afoul of antitrust laws.
> >
> >http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1104154517121
>
> --
> art fougner, md
> May the Joy of this Holiday Season Be with You
> and Yours throughout the New Year.
>





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