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 fBC21T025194; Tue, 11 Dec 2001 21:01:30 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2001 21:01:30 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.0.20011211175533.00a001a0@mail.aracnet.com> 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: Sylvan Rainwater <sylvan@cccchs.org> To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-family@literacy.nifl.gov> Subject: [NIFL-FAMILY:508] Replies to listservs X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 Status: O Content-Length: 1672 Lines: 35 At 08:21 PM 12/11/2001 -0500, you wrote: >In a message dated 12/11/2001 4:14:36 PM Mountain Standard Time, >ayw@georgetown.edu writes: > >>Seems like I fell victim to the confusing "reply to" feature in Outlook >>and Netscape Messenger. I assumed that selecting "reply" instead of >>"reply to all" would email my message only to the original sender. > > >Perhaps it would help if we look at how listservs work. One person sends a >message to the server (nifl-family@nifl.gov) and the server then sends it >to everyone on the list. At that point, the server becomes the sender. So, >whether you hit the Reply or the Reply All button, the address that >automatically will be inserted on the To line will be the address of the >server. <SNIP> Not always. It depends on how the list is set up. There are several lists I belong to where the default is reply to sender only, where the original person who posted is identified as the sender. In order for the reply to go to the list, I have to hit Reply All, and then the original poster gets it twice, once as the sender, and once as a member of the list. Regardless of how it is set up, or how your own email program works, it is important to check your header before you send out a post -- check to see that it is going to where you want it to, and that the subject line reflects the current content of your post. This one, for example, was posted to the list with a subject line of Family Literacy curriculum. ------------------------------ Sylvan Rainwater . sylvan@cccchs.org Adult Education Teacher and Family Literacy Program Manager Clackamas County Children's Commission . Oregon City, OR USA
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