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Re: message reception



At 12:07 PM 7/29/99 -0700, Dale Goble wrote:
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>The difficulty is that the default on the list is set to reply to the
>sender with an additional question of whether you want to also reply to
>all recipients.  Thus it requires two separate steps to reply only to the
>list (i.e., you have to select reply to all and then delete the original
>correspondent's address).  
>
>I think that it would be better to have the default set as a reply only to
>the list -- but I seem to remember that that option was considered and
>rejected.
>
>Dale Goble

It is possible to "reply to all" and then delete the person's email address
while keeping the Vision 2020 address.
That's what I did with this message, and it took me an extra 1.75 seconds.

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>On Thu, 29 Jul 1999, Robert Hoffmann wrote:
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>> As long as Mike Curley has brought up email delivery issues, could I make a
>> rather unrelated (but similar category) request?
>> 
>> At the risk of stating the silly, everyone on the mailing list is on the
>> mailing list.  So for those people responding to a posting, you need only
>> respond to Vision 2020 in order to also send a response to the person
>> posting the original message.  If I post a message on Vision 2020, respond
>> only to vision2020@moscow.com, not to vision2020@moscow.com and me.
>> Because I will get the message any way.  I don't need two copies (and
>> neither does anyone else making postings).
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> 
>> 
>> Bob Hoffmann                         229 East C St., Suite B
>> Alt-Escape Adventures                Moscow, ID  83843  USA
>> http://www.alt-escape.com            Phone: (208) 883-0642
>>                                      Fax: 1-800-683-3799
>> 
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Bob Hoffmann                         229 East C St., Suite B
Alt-Escape Adventures                Moscow, ID  83843  USA
http://www.alt-escape.com            Phone: (208) 883-0642
                                     Fax: 1-800-683-3799




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