> From: Mark Balogh <batwing_at_kerrlake.com> > First, let me say that I am having some problem relating to my e-mail. > I don't know if there is a problem with my e-mail client regarding the > reply or reply all buttons or if my rather undependable ISP is > misrouting mail. My computer and e-mail client are old and may be > suffering compatibility problems. I am also getting excessive Java > error messages on the browser. I have sent a reply to the list that > seems to have be received by some and not others, something that Jackies > says may not be possible. What is more likely, I think, is that some folks who might think they saw your reply to that message actually saw an earlier reply of yours. Of course, when you send a message as "reply all" the original sender of the post you are replying to will receive your message (along with whomever else happens to be in the copy line which is sometimes multiple addresses, I've noticed). Bob will correct me if I'm wrong here... but if your message is received by folks on the list that are not in the cc line, then it was received by the PaddleWise server and sent on. Since my name is the first on the subscriber list and email goes out in that order, if I didn't see it, I don't suspect it was ever received by the PaddleWise server. > Now I have heard from a list memeber that I > replied to directly who says my personal reply went to the list for > which I am sorry, it was not addressed to the list when it left my > desktop. Well, though you may not have intended for it to be addressed to the list, there is no way it would go to the list without you instructing your server to send it to the list. Sometimes folks hit "reply all" and don't realize they did. It does happen that folks send private messages and the receiver *thinks* it was posted to the list and when they reply, they either forward or address the reply to the list. It happens to the best of us :-) > The one that went to the list never made it back to me on the > list so I am not sure what the problem is. With this in mind, I am > going to go inactive for a day or so while I try to work this out. This > is the only list I am having the trouble with as far as I can tell. Most problems folks have show up with a list such as PaddleWise because it is so active. I can't tell you how many error messages I receive each day because server failures at some ISP's. I also receive error messages in response to each message that goes out from the list for each subscriber whose mailbox is full. A lot of email lists are set up so that if you only hit the reply button, then your reply goes to the entire list. This is, imo as well as many other list-owners' opinions, improperly set up as the sender is not *really* the list but the individual sending the message. There is also a bigger opportunity for private replies to end up being posted to the entire list when a listserver is set up that way. The best way to make sure your reply goes to the entire list is select "reply all" then delete any extra names other than PaddleWise unless you want the person to whom you are replying to get your reply twice. These days, due to spam, many servers are being configured in strange ways to prevent spamming or "relaying" (the unauthorized use of their server by a spammer to relay spam). Sometimes this prevents email from PaddleWise being received by your server (I get those error messages, too). This is usually the result of erroneous configuration of a server. Cheers, Jackie *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - All postings copyright the author and not to be reproduced outside PaddleWise without author's permission Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************
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