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From: "G. Lee Hearl" <>
Subject: Re: Fwd: [LO] Reply to whom?
Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2002 14:27:41 -0500
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The thing that causes more problems than anything else with the "reply to
List" setting is that one must either type in the personal address or copy
and paste it in.. So most people just hit reply expecting it to go to the
personal address and it goes only to the list! Sometimes it causes much
embarassment when private message are sent to the lists! G. Lee
Malcolm Wrote:
>>>Carol, when you hit the Reply or Reply-to-All button and the appropriate
address or addresses appear in the To box, you are free to edit those
addresses any way you please. If you are replying to a message from a list
which uses the Reply-to-list option, the list address will appear in the To
box. You may, for whatever reason, prefer to reply privately to the sender
of the message. You will need to edit the contents of the To box in order to
do this.

One of the complaints that listers have about the Reply-to-list setting is
that they don't realize or forget that they need to do this and private
messages end up on the list. But the point is, people are free to use the
default address or not as they wish.
G. Lee Hearl
Authentic Appalachian Storyteller
Abingdon, Va.

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