I agree with James. What happens here now is really standard practice as far
as such lists are concerned and should be relatively straightforward in its
operation. It is being careful that matters, not which browser you use (this
= Safari for all it matters).
I would go further and argue for a 'slow' movement in communication as in
food. We mustn't let the capacity of the technology for instant response
rush us along into error. I've waited at least ten minutes before replying.
Alistair
On 20/11/07 17:07, "James Cummings" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Jeff Drouin wrote:
>> It seems to me that another thing going on here is varying behaviors of our
>> different email clients. Some clients will not include the individual
>> sender's email address in the message header after Reply is hit. Since the
>> list is configured to reply-to-list by default, if you wish to reply only to
>> the sending individual, it's probably best to copy her email address before
>> hitting Reply and paste it into the To: field after hitting it.
>
> Jeff is right, this is a client-by-client configuration. I use Mozilla
> Thunderbird which by default shows both the 'From:' and the 'Sender:'
> message header field. If you look at the raw source of the message you
> will see that the sender's email is included as 'From:' and the list's,
> correctly, as 'Sender:'. The difference comes because some clients are set
> defaultly to display the 'Sender:' header field only. The From: field
> certainly will still be there in the raw view of the message. This may be
> something you can configure in your mail client of choice. I highly
> recommend Mozilla's thunderbird as a good stable open source
> community-programmed offering. http://www.mozilla.com/thunderbird/
>
>> It appears the only true method for correct addressing is personal vigilance!
>
> If it means that we're slightly careful/conscious about what we write and
> disseminate to the outside world, I can't see that as a bad thing.
>
> -James
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