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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 %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%