Date:         Sat, 30 Jun 2001 07:09:46 -0700
Reply-To:     Tony <tgerr95@YAHOO.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Tony <tgerr95@YAHOO.COM>
Subject:      Re: ** PLEASE READ ** Change the List's Reply-To address
In-Reply-To:  <008001c100d6$be178ba0$2e43530c@pavilion>
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Me 3

Tony


--- Karl Wolz <wolzphoto@WORLDNET.ATT.NET> wrote:
> Tom,
>
> "Reply" and "reply all" are not too difficult to
> figure out, nor to use, so
> long as you force yourself slow down by about a
> nanosecond.
>
> I much prefer having the option of replying
> privately to a post.  Sometimes
> this is a convenience.  Sometimes it saves the
> person to whom I am writing
> some embarrassment.  If I post a widget for sale,
> there's no reason for the
> whole list to see the responses I receive (and in
> some instances, I may not
> want the whole list to see them).
>
> I am a member of several other lists which are not
> structured to allow
> p-mail, and on them I am not nearly as active.
> Karl Wolz
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "DaveC" <voicebox@DNAI.COM>
> To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
> Sent: Friday, June 29, 2001 8:52 AM
> Subject: ** PLEASE READ ** Change the List's
> Reply-To address
>
>
> > Hello,
> > OK, I just gotta say something, here.
> >
> > For most posts I send to the List, I'm getting
> multiple "replies"
> > sent to me rather than the List. (Due to the
> wording of these
> > messages, I'm sure they were meant to go to the
> List, not to me
> > directly.) I'm sure that I'm not the only one who
> gets "public"
> > messages sent to them rather than to the List.
> >
> > In fairness to those persons from whom I received
> messages, I, too,
> > mistakenly sent posts to members that I meant to
> send to the List. In
> > all, a 80% error rate! I know it's a small sample,
> but geees! How
> > many others on the list mistakenly have sent or
> received messages
> > that were meant to be posted to the List? Quite a
> few, I'd bet.
> >
> > And here's the reason why:
> >
> > The Reply-To address for this List is set to be
> the individual
> > poster's address, not the List address.
> >
> > So, whenever a person selects Reply from their
> e-mail program (as we
> > all know), the message is not addressed to the
> List, but to the
> > individual who posted the message. To avoid
> erroneously sending posts
> > to individuals, each poster must manually change
> the Reply-To address
> > for every reply.
> >
> > This mis-direction of messages is something that,
> if one applies
> > oneself, he/she could overcome this problem. But
> who wants to have to
> > try to remember this each and every time he/she
> composes a message to
> > the VANAGON list? And then you've always got the
> newcomers who don't
> > expect this to be this way (all other lists I
> belong to have the LIST
> > address as the reply-to address).
> >
> > The current process of replying to List postings
> is tedious and
> > error-prone. I suggest that the Reply-To address
> be changed to <
> > vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM >.
> >
> > I am a member of several lists, and this is the
> only one that doesn't
> > have a Reply-To address that is the List address.
> >
> > I assume that the reason the Reply-To address is
> set to be the
> > individual poster's address is to avoid replies
> being posted to the
> > List that are meant to be private. But think about
> this: how many
> > times do you send a message to an individual list
> member, and how
> > many times do you post to the List? In other
> words, the number of
> > time you might mean to send a private message to a
> list member and
> > mistakenly post it to the List has a *much* less
> chance of happening
> > than the opposite occurring (simply because we
> post to the list more
> > often than we reply privately to list members).
> >
> > Sincerely,
> > Dave Carpenter
> > --
> > Dave Carpenter
> >
> > Whatever you wish for me,
> > May you have twice as much.


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