On Wed, 18 Sep 1996, Alasdair Mackintosh wrote:
> Dennis D. Martin wrote:
>
> > I am very unknowledgeable about these systems, but I know that on the
> > e-mailer I use (Pine, U. of Washington), when one presses "reply" one
> > gets a choice of replying to the "to address" rather than "from
> > address." In my experience, if I reply to the "to address" my reply
> > gets sent twice to the entire list; if I reply to the "from address" it
> > only gets sent once.
> >
> > Perhaps someone more knowledgeable can explain this.
>
> Dennis - you may not be aware of this, but it looks to me as though
> you are sending out two copies of your mails - one to the list as a
> whole, and one to the person whose posting you are replying to. For
> example, the header on your last message reads:
>
> From: "Dennis D. Martin" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: John Carmi Parsons <[log in to unmask]>
> CC: [log in to unmask]
>
> In this case, John Parsons is going to get two copies (one directly
> from you, and another indirectly via the copy which you sent to the
> mailbase list server.
>
> The rest of the list members only get the one copy.
>
Thanks for the warning.
John Parsons
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