In article <[email protected]>, Alan Milewczyk <[email protected]> wrote: > On 08/11/2014 14:10, Jim Lesurf wrote: > > On 08 Nov, Owen Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Blasted mailing list, I sent the message below as a personal reply, > >> AGAIN. I simply cannot get my brain to accept how this list works. I'm > >> on half a dozen other mailing lists all of which work the other way > >> round ie. replies go to the list. Mutter. > > I've also been a bit puzzled/confused by the list. I'd expected emails t > > > I always felt that in a list you're replying to the whole group - so why > duplicate a copy to an individual, as some seem to do on here? The only > exception would be if you're sending a PRIVATE reply for one individual, > in which case it goes to that person, not the group. I have my mail > reader set up to transfer list mail to a list folder but I also have to > go wading through my inbox to pick out the ones where people replied to > an individual and cc'ed the group.
I've now setup my email program [1] so these go to a specified box I've configured as an email list one, and ticked the option to avoid duplicates on the webpage. Pleased to say that this reply now works conventionally. i.e. I can choose between a reply to the list or the individual, and the list reply puts the list's address into 'To'. :-) Jim [1] !Pluto. Which Ro users will know. -- Electronics http://www.st-and.ac.uk/~www_pa/Scots_Guide/intro/electron.htm Armstrong Audio http://www.audiomisc.co.uk/Armstrong/armstrong.html Audio Misc http://www.audiomisc.co.uk/index.html _______________________________________________ get_iplayer mailing list [email protected] http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer
