In all the other lists I've experienced, hitting the mail reader's "Reply" key sends the reply to the list, and not the individual who posted the message being replied to. Seems to me like changing this would increase the quality of the list by preventing threads' being inadvertantly truncated as people forget to paste the list server's address into their "To:" area. Am I missing something? ----------------------- Pete Cresswell *************************************************************************** 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/ ***************************************************************************
Pete - I thought most e-mail clients had a function the allowd you to reply to the individual and also to the list, with one keystroke. For example, in Outlook Express, there's the "Reply to All" button. In the AOL e-mail program there's a similar function, also called "Reply All". Bill Hansen Ithaca NY *************************************************************************** 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/ ***************************************************************************
RE/ >Pete - I thought most e-mail clients had a function the allowd you to reply >to the individual and also to the list, with one keystroke. > >For example, in Outlook Express, there's the "Reply to All" button. In the >AOL e-mail program there's a similar function, also called "Reply All". > Not mine (Agent 1.8). There's a "Reply To All" option, but that's about it. This is the first list where I've seen "ReplyTo" set to the individual and not the list. ----------------------- Pete Cresswell *************************************************************************** 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/ ***************************************************************************
> From: "(Pete Cresswell)" <hc_at_FatBelly.com> > RE/ > >Pete - I thought most e-mail clients had a function the allowd you to reply > >to the individual and also to the list, with one keystroke. > > > >For example, in Outlook Express, there's the "Reply to All" button. In the > >AOL e-mail program there's a similar function, also called "Reply All". > > > > Not mine (Agent 1.8). There's a "Reply To All" option, but that's > about it. Uhm... isn't that what he said or am I missing something? > This is the first list where I've seen "ReplyTo" set to the individual and not > the list. This has been discussed before here on PaddleWise. We believe "reply to" should show the individual that authored the message and not the list. It has proven less awkward for subscribers to the list to have their email that was intended for the entire list accidentally sent to one individual (where they can just resend the message to the list) rather than have email that is intended as a private reply to one individual end up being sent to the entire list by accident. This set-up is not at all uncommon in lists. Cheers, Jackie list-owner *************************************************************************** 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/ ***************************************************************************
On Mon, 19 Jun 2000, Jackie Fenton wrote: [snip] > This has been discussed before here on PaddleWise. We believe "reply to" > should show the individual that authored the message and not the list. > It has proven less awkward for subscribers to the list to have their > email that was intended for the entire list accidentally sent to one > individual (where they can just resend the message to the list) rather than > have email that is intended as a private reply to one individual end up > being sent to the entire list by accident. This set-up is not at all > uncommon in lists. > > Cheers, > > Jackie > list-owner i run a couple of lists myself, and hate to just add a "me too" but i agree, if i realize i've just replied to the sender, i can always resend it to the list, but it can be quite embarrassing to send a private message to the list . . . AND i can just about guarantee it cuts down on the list "clutter" ... especially with as many folks as we have on this list. my lists are quite small in comparison, but the best thing i ever did was change the setting to "reply-to:sender" mark [and his 2 centavos] -- #-canoeist[at]dotzen[dot]org------------------------------------------- mark zen o, o__ o_/| o_. po box 474 </ [\/ [__| [__\ ft. lupton, co 80621-0474 (`-/-------/----') (`----|-------\-') #~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~_at_~~~~~~~_at_~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~_at_~~~~~~~~_at_~~~~~ http://www.dotzen.org/paddler [index to club websites i administer] -- A smooth sea never made a skillful mariner. -- English Proverb *************************************************************************** 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/ ***************************************************************************
Pete wrote: (SNIP) > This is the first list where I've seen "ReplyTo" set to the individual and not > the list. An lot of stuff goes on off-list. The method Jackie uses works well for that and helps avoid the embarrassment of messages going to the list that should not get posted in public. Jackie has no way of keeping records of how many flame wars she has avoided but I would bet she has avoided a few. E-Mail lends itself to quick responses that we repent at our leisure. Anything that helps avoid public humiliation seems a good idea to me. The downside comes if you don't erase the sender's address before sending to the list when replying to a message. The sender of the original message then gets two responses. Not a big deal since the delete button cleans things up pretty quickly along with all those other messages you don't want to read. :-) Cheers, John Winters Redwing Designs Web site address http://home.ican.net/~735769 *************************************************************************** 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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