Warning to all those who are or will be using AT&T's new web mail interface to read list messages (this roll-out is taking place on an area by area basis):
Among all of the many new (what they call features, I call aggravations) bugs, some of those related to replying to list messages are: 1. By default, the message is routed only to the person who wrote the particular message to which you are responding, not the list. 2. Selecting the "reply to all" icon routes the message only to the list, not including the prior message's author. This works for list messages providing you don't want to send an immediate copy to anyone else, e.g., a list DIGEST subscriber who explicitly asked to be copied. I have already found more than two dozen other aggravations that are not specifically list related, but I will leave those for you to complain directly to AT&T about when you can no longer tolerate them. (We have become such a nation of sheep these days, it seems that less than one in a thousand actually complains, even when their ISP makes such an egregious roll-out.) Until AT&T rolls things back to what worked, pay attention to the address routing fields because you will likely have to manually direct your replies to the list. /russ ________________________________ From: William H. Blair <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Wednesday, July 24, 2013 3:25 PM Subject: Test message; please excuse this interruption I am just trying to confirm that a message I send to the list will have my own e-mail address in the header so recipients will be able to reply to me personally (instead of to the list). -- WB
