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From: Dennis Lee Bieber <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] Reply-To usage
Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2004 08:39:51 -0800
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In-Reply-To: <6.0.0.22.2.20040113195321.028eda58@pop3.norton.antivirus>


On or about 17:06 01/13/04 a carrier pigeon from Lee Hoffman delivered:


>Thus you must use the Reply All button to ensure that the reply goes to
>the list. The Reply-All will also enter the original sender's address in
>the To address of your reply (although you can delete it if desired --
>otherwise the person will receive two copies of the message).

In most clients, a "reply all" can also do something else... It
can insert the original author's name in the quote attribution line (see
first line above). Since a regular "reply" is presumed to be going only to
the original author, attributions normally read "... from you..."; which
can be confusing when going to a list as other readers may not know who the
"you" was.

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