On 30/06/2018 01:52, [email protected] wrote:
I would like to respond to this matter. Before I do, I would like to clarify something- the subject line is now “Warning about MyHeritage / OFF LIST / Personal Emails”. Does this mean the current thread is off list even though in the “To:” field it says “Legacy User Group”? If it is off line who could read it? The “From:” field only shows Arnold Sprague. I want everybody who received this thread to be able to read my response to it. If select “Reply” (instead of “Reply All”) would that achieve what I want? To me it looks like the whole LUG has received the thread.
I think what happened was that someone wished to respond privately to a particular person, following up a message to this lis, they marked the subject line "Off List" for the benefit of the intended recipient but then accidentally sent their message to the entire list.
Exactly how you respond to a message, intending your reply to go to the whole list or only to the original poster, rather depends on the software you are using . In my case, with Thunderbird, I need to "Reply" for a private e-mail or "Reply List" to send to LUG. In your case, "Reply All" will send your message to the group.
It is not sufficient simply to change the subject line when one wishes to start a new topic or swerve from the original one. Most e-mail programs will not thread the messages correctly if this is done, so some people may not see or read the re-titled message because it is in the middle of a thread they are ignoring. To start a new topic, swerve from the original one or to "resurrect" a swerved/re-titled topic (which is what you want to do) you should start a NEW thread with the correct subject line and either repeat your original message or quote from the last on-topic response to it.
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