[R-390] Fw: Off list posts

[Bob Camp]

Hi,

And here's another reason to grab that cup of coffe. Gotta remember to change the email from line to get past the robot ....

    Take Care!

        Bob Camp
        KB8TQ


----- Original Message ----- 
From: Bob Camp 
To: r-390@mailman.qth.net 
Sent: Saturday, December 28, 2002 4:10 PM
Subject: Off list posts


Hi,

This obviously has nothing to do with R-390's and everything to do with the mailing list. It also may just be me and nobody else has the same problem.

When I decide to reply to a post I pretty much always hit the "reply" button on the email program rather than the "reply all" button. I do it without thinking much about what I'm doing. 

Since the order of the addresses in the from field is poster first and list second the result is a message to the person who posted and nothing to the list. That's fine except in 99% of the cases that's not what I wanted to do. 

If I was a little more awake there would be no problem, but there is only so much coffee in the world :)

I have noticed that a lot of the replies I get to posts come directly to me and do not show up on the list. A few are of a nature that the list should not get a copy, but the vast majority are things that the list would be interested in. It always makes me wonder if the other guy has the same problem I do or if he considers the reply to be a non-list item. 

A simple solution to the whole problem would be for the list robot to put the list email address first and then the address of the person who posted the message. I don't know if this is as simple as throwing a switch in the setup program or as complex as re-writing the code from scratch.

Is it worth looking in to?

    Take Care!

        Bob Camp
        KB8TQ


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