You aren't getting two replies? Odd. Cause when I hit reply, there are indeed two email addresses that the email (even this one that I type right now) go to - the CLUG talk list address, and your calpc address. If you aren't actually getting two copies of this email, then you either don't actually read all your email, or have some filter magic going on. :-)
Ian > -----Original Message----- > From: David J. Bourassa [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Monday, October 07, 2002 8:16 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: (clug-talk) some quick notes > > > Just to correct you, Ian. I'm not getting two replies, like Aaron. > Just the one, thank you very much. My reply-to address is different > than my proper email address because I use an alias for my everyday > email address. That way, if I ever change ISP's, I only have to change > the alias' redirection. > > As to Aarons' situation, I'm probably off the mark there, as I was only > thinking aloud that you might have been hitting the reply to all button > instead of the normal "reply" button. My apologies, mea culpa, etc. > > Ian Bruseker wrote: > > Absolutely positive. I do know how to work a mouse. ;-) > > > > Huh, well, I was mistaken about one thing. Aaron isn't the > only one on the > > list who gets two replies - you do too. > > > > Let me hypothesize: Both of you have explicitly set Reply To in > your email > > program settings. Am I correct? Check the email headers. All > the answers > > are there. There are 2 Reply-To entries in the headers of each > email you > > guys send out, one generated by your MUA, one generated by the > mailing list > > software. Reply-to is only really intended for use when you > send from one > > email address, but expect the reply to go to a different address. Since > > both of you seem to send and receive from the same address, you don't > > actually need to set that. Furthermore, the CLUG mailing list software > > (more specifically, the list admin, whoever you are, has set it > up this way) > > does the extra magic of adding a reply-to entry for the list as > the email > > passes through (this is known as "Reply-to Munging", see link below), to > > make sure conversations stay on the list, where one expects > them to be. It > > does not, however, remove any existing reply-to entries, as a > courtesy to > > the sender, to respect their settings. Since you guys have > explicitly set > > it, there are two reply-to's, so Outlook is putting both those > address in > > the To: line of any reply. That doesn't seem to be what you want, so I > > suggest you unset Reply-to, since you don't actually need it to be set. > > > > (Don't blame Outlook, by the way, it's only doing its job - two reply-to > > headers, two To: addresses. If you want to blame the user for not > > explicitly deleting your personal email address from every > reply they want > > to send to the list, go ahead, but they shouldn't have to do it > in the first > > place.) > > > > Note that if the mailing list software did not set reply-to, > and since you > > guys explicitly do set reply-to, then every reply to you would > instantly go > > off-list. > > > > For the definitive argument for why reply-to munging is a bad > thing, read > > http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html But if you > agree with the > > positions stated in that document, take it up with the list > admin, not with > > the list users. > > > > Personally, I don't care which way it's set. Sometimes I take > the time to > > delete the extra addresses, sometimes I don't, but if you get > two replies > > from me, you have no one to blame but yourself and the list admin. ;-) > > > > Ian > > > > > >>-----Original Message----- > >>From: David J. Bourassa [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > >>Sent: Monday, October 07, 2002 12:00 PM > >>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >>Subject: Re: (clug-talk) some quick notes > >> > >> > >>I don't know Ian. Are you sure you're not hitting the "Reply to All > >>button" ? Mine doesn't work that way (Mozilla). > >> > >>Ian Bruseker wrote: > >> > >>>Aaron, > >>> > >>>Take a look at the "To:" line. Notice it has both the clug > >>>email and your > >>>email address? I hit "Reply", and that's what I got as reply to email > >>>addresses. No other person on this list has that issue. I think the > >>>problem is at your end. Check your email program settings, > the issue is > >>>probably there. > >>> > >>>Ian > >> > >>-- > >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- > >> Dave Bourassa at > >> http://members.shaw.ca/djb.enterprises/ > >> mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- > >> > >> > >> > > > > > > > > > > -- > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > Dave Bourassa at > http://members.shaw.ca/djb.enterprises/ > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > >
