Return-Path: <nifl-family@literacy.nifl.gov> Received: from literacy (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by literacy.nifl.gov (8.10.2/8.10.2) with SMTP id fBBEdn005291; Tue, 11 Dec 2001 09:39:53 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2001 09:39:53 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <NDBBIIAMELHODBHLMPKIAEGGDFAA.nsledd@famlit.org> Errors-To: listowner@literacy.nifl.gov Reply-To: nifl-family@literacy.nifl.gov Originator: nifl-family@literacy.nifl.gov Sender: nifl-family@literacy.nifl.gov Precedence: bulk From: "Nancy Sledd" <nsledd@famlit.org> To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-family@literacy.nifl.gov> Subject: [NIFL-FAMILY:491] how to reply to an individual X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; Status: O Content-Length: 3020 Lines: 60 Varshna gave an excellent instruction (see her message below.) Others have written me with similar ideas on how to respond to just one person and not the whole list. So, I hope these ideas (see more below) help. If any of you are unclear how to respond to an individual, feel free to write me individually at nsledd@famlit.org To do that, you must start a new message (do not hit "reply" to this message) and type my e-mail address in there. You can cut my e-mail address out of this message and paste it in the "to" slot on your new message. Here is a great idea from another subscriber: As a moderator of a different list, I know how trying it can be at times to get people to use the listserv correctly. Inadvertently sending a message intended for only one person to the entire list is an easy mistake to make and those mistakes happen sometimes. But what I've found with the list that I moderate is that most of the time it happens because the person doesn't know how to do it correctly. Some folks are just not very sophisticated computer users. They don't seem to realize that using the reply button will send their message to the entire list. I used to do what you are doing and tell folks not to send messages to the list that are intended for only one person. Seemed clear enough to me. Then I realized that I needed to tell them more than that -- I needed to tell them specifically what to do it. I needed to tell them to not hit the reply button and to copy and paste the sender's address in the "To" box. I also tell them where to find the sender's address to copy and paste. And yet another subscriber says this: I think the problem may arise because the messages from NIFL, as they appear in my Outlook Express window, appear to come directly from the original sender, rather than from the list. That is to say, it says, "Nancy Sledd" in the "From" bar, so that when I click the "Reply" button, I might expect the reply to go directly to you. In order to send this message only to you, I had to delete the address that automatically appeared in the "To" slot, and put in your address. Nancy Sledd, NIFL-Family moderator -----Original Message----- From: nifl-family@nifl.gov [mailto:nifl-family@nifl.gov]On Behalf Of Varshna Narumanchi-Jackson Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2001 9:10 AM To: Multiple recipients of list Subject: [NIFL-FAMILY:489] Re: Family Literacy Curriculums It might just be the case that individuals don't know how to reply just to the sender. In Outlook Express, hitting "Reply" will send the mail to the list. One must hit "New", then manually enter the sender's address in order to post to the individual only. There is documentation in the "Help" section of Outlook which explains this process. While I am not technically savvy, I do participate in a number of lists, and this is a fairly common problem more related to a limited understanding of how e-mail applications and list-serves work rather than an individual disregard for net etiquette. Good Day. vnj
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