[Elecraft] Off list responses [Thread closed]

[Eric Swartz WA6HHQ - Elecraft]

Guys, in the future, please self moderate and resist the urge to comment when a thread has a lot of replies like this.  Let's close it off now in the interest of improving list Signal to Noise Ratio.

73,
Eric
list Moderator
www.elecraft.com
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On May 3, 2012, at 8:00 AM, Michael Schulz <mschulz at creative-chaos.com> wrote:

> Nope, that's the beauty of it. You still only get the message once :) As
> you can see now.
> So Reply-all is a workaround but the Reply-To setting would be the more
> elegant and client
> independent solution. Thunderbird for example can recognize from the
> headers of a list email
> that it is a list and offers to reply to either list or sender.
> 
> 73 Mike K5TRI
> 
> On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 9:40 AM, Jim Dunstan <jdunstan at tbaytel.net> wrote:
> 
>> At 09:22 AM 5/3/2012 -0500, Michael Schulz wrote:
>> 
>>> There's an easy fix for that :)
>>> 
>>> Short term: just hit Reply-all which will also put the list address in cc
>>> Long term: change the settings for the Reply-To: field in the mailman
>>> configuration (has to be done by
>>> the list owner) and all replies automatically go to the list.
>>> 
>>> 73 Mike K5TRI
>>> 
>> 
>> Hi Mike
>> 
>> I just hit Reply-all and you will read this message twice Hi Hi .... once
>> directly and then on the list ... one of the few times I have used
>> Reply-all ... I'll have to remember that in the future.
>> 
>> Tnx
>> 
>> Jim, VE3CI
>> 
>> 
>>> I don't believe it is purposeful ... that is, the personal rather than
>>>> public response.  Someone already noted that when they respond from
>>> their
>>>> Email client it addresses to the individual rather than the public
>>> list.  I
>>>> subscribe to a number of different lists and the reply from my Email
>>> client
>>>> (Eudora) always goes to the public list .... except for this one.  I
>>> have
>>>> to remember to make the effort to substitute the list address instead of
>>>> the that of the sender of the original post.  The way my email client is
>>>> setup works with all other lists.
>>>> 
>>>> No big deal ... just an observation.
>>>> 
>>>> Jim, VE3CI
>>> 
>> 
>> 
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