Hello Marck! On Wednesday, October 08, 2003, 7:11 PM, you wrote, in part:
M> When you create *any* kind of new message while you have the focus M> in a folder with a folder template, it gets the list address added M> to it. Let me mention another danger here. It's the one that caught and embarrassed me early on, and everyone thought it was from a "folder template"--the warning about which I had taken to heart and dealt with as advised. But it was not. It was the very convenient "Auto-complete." I had recently replied to a list message in a way that named the person as well as <tbudl...> as in the field above that names Marck D. Pearlstone. Next, I wrote a private mail to that same person, not with a copying routine--I was so new that I thought I had to type addresses into fields on new messages. So I typed the person's name and auto-complete filled it in, with me only glancing at it, eager to write the body of my message and quickly skipping down to the subject line. Auto-complete put the last address at which I had mailed to that person, which was "That Person <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>". And I failed to notice. My private mail went to the list, and I was most embarrassingly teased and chortled over. One way to prevent this is to put "handles" on your individual correspondents and when doing a new message, a cc, or a back cc, type the handle. Then the address-book address will be used, and the convenience of Auto-complete is still available to you. Of course, reading all the header fields every time might also keep a person out of trouble, but I think most of us don't do that. In certain situations it can be very dangerous not to go the address book route you are teaching us, Marck. As when private financial information or passwords get made public. -- Best regards, Mary The Bat! 2.00.6 on Windows XP 5.1 2600 Service Pack 1
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