BLOCK TOM MARGRAVE PLEASE]

Altona Duston hald at sound.net
Thu Jul 6 13:03:28 CDT 2000


 Monty,

"Monty J. Harder" wrote:

>   Except that replyall sends one copy to you personally, and another to
> the list.  That's not what I want.
> I want the reply to go to the list, and =not= send another to you.  I'd
> have to hit one button to reply, then remove your address from the To:
> field.  Not exactly rocket science, but it is also the sort of manual
> process that should be automated by a macro or somesuch.  I could
> probably hack something together to make this happen, but I shouldn't
> have to.  There should be a clear indicator of where list traffic goes,
> put there by the list server (which should know best, after all) when
> it's "reflecting" the list address out to the rest of us.
>

Smart list software can see that a list subscriber is already in the
To: field, and not send that particular person a copy.  Thus even
though they are addressed by both entries, they get only one copy.

Hal Duston
hald at sound.net
Boring is good.
A conformist in a nonconformist world.




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