[TenTec] Group replies vs. personal e-mail

[George, W5YR]

Scott, take it from one who knows, not all email clients are alike. I use
Outlook 2000 which is the big brother to Outlook Express, and regardless of
whether you press REPLY TO or REPLY TO ALL, "tentec at contesting.com" goes
into the TO: address field. The user has no control over that  - there is no
difference in the action of the two buttons. There is no option to change
that behavior - the list owner has set up the list operation in that manner.

Some lists are set up to operate that way - the majority that I use are not.

As it is, if you don't want to send something to the list, you must manually
delete the TenTec address and either type in or paste in  the address of the
one person to whom the response is directed.

The usual procedure on most lists is to allow the email client to do these
tasks automatically and transparently when the user presses the Reply To
button. That way the original Sender's address is automatically placed in
the TO" field.

The usual rationale' for not using this procedure is that the list owner
feels that anything that a subscriber sends out should be seen by everyone,
and if an exception is to be made, it is the user's responsibility to take
the required manual steps.

As one who has gone as deeply into the trenches as one can in this regard, I
can only advise you to double-check the TO: field with every posting to
ensure where the message is going. If you do not change it, your posting
will go to the entire list.

This also brings to mind a saying that my Mother used a lot when I was a
child: "Never say anything that you would not want to see printed on the
front page of the newspaper!"

73/72, George
Amateur Radio W5YR -  the Yellow Rose of Texas
Fairview, TX 30 mi NE of Dallas in Collin county EM13QE
"In the 57th year and it just keeps getting better!"



> -----Original Message-----
> From: tentec-bounces at contesting.com
> [mailto:tentec-bounces at contesting.com]On Behalf Of Scott Rosenfeld
> [N7JI]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2003 2:42 PM
> To: tentec at contesting.com
> Subject: [TenTec] Group replies vs. personal e-mail
>
>
> Here's the question - I receive all of my messages from this
> reflector via
> e-mail.  When I hit REPLY it asks whether to send to the sender, or to
> everyone.
>
> Maybe for some reason people can't get their programs to reply to just a
> single person.
>
> And I don't really have a problem with replies going to everyone on the
> list (me included) but when it involves sales of items, how people want
> to get paid, bargaining, etc., that's stuff that really should be done
> "in private," "offline."
>
> If it's a case of cutting and pasting into a new e-mail in another mail
> program, it seems that it would be prudent to do that...
>
> On Wed, 5 Mar 2003, William Winscott wrote:
>
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Jim" <jlboockh at earthlink.net>
> > To: <tentec at contesting.com>
> > Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2003 6:59 AM
> > Subject: Re: [TenTec] SALE: 216
> >
> >
> > > Jay-
> > >
> > > I'll take the filter. How do you want to be paid?
> > >
> > > Jim Boockholdt  N4AL
> > > 984 Shades Crest Road
> > > Birmingham, AL  35226
> > > 205 979-8302
> > >
> > > Jim  N4AL
> > >
> > >
> > > Jay Bromley wrote:
> > > > Anyone need one of these?  $50 shipped.
> > > >
> > > > 216- 500 Hz 6 pole 9 MHz FSK Filter
> > > >
> > > > Jay Bromley
> > > > 9505 Bryn Mawr Circle
> > > > Fort Smith, AR.  72908-9276
> > > >
> > > > Phone #  479-651-7012
> > > > w5jay at arrl.net
> > > >
> > > > Many thanks and 73 de jay..
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
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