Carl wrote: > Also, I asked earlier if anyone could > explain to me how to respond to a particular thread so that my response > isn't just simply "lost in cyber-space." Anyone?
Carl and all, We have the forum set so, if you just hit <reply>, your message will go ONLY to the sender of the message to which you are replying. This keeps the forum cleaner because, on many forums, a fair percentage of responses are only meant for the one person who sent the original message. Too many responses are, "me too." So, if you want to send a message to the forum, you MUST change the address in the <To> line. If I'm answering a specific *important* question, I usually hit <Reply All> and then EDIT the address lines to include only those who should receive it. In this case, I'm answering a question from Carl and I want to be sure he gets it so I left his address in the <To> line. Since everyone could use this info, I also included the forum address. Carl will get two copies so I use this sparingly. For most responses, I just send the response to the forum because even the questioner will get it (usually). I think most responses that seem to fall in the bit bucket do so because you hit <Reply> and didn't notice that the reply went ONLY to the sender of the replied-to message. We are also seeing cases in which messages sent to the forum are echoed to everyone EXCEPT the sender. This also happened on Tom Laird-McConnell's server and sometimes happens on some forums I use hosted in England. Only Bog knows why. (If you don't get an echo of a message you send, go to the Yahoo forum and look to see if your message shows up there. If it does, then it's likely everyone did receive it.) Ed
