My vote is for change. 

It is much less hassle to resend to the whole group, when you realise 
your mistake, than to retract a mistaken personal e-mail, accidentally 
widely circulated.

Also, would be great to get rid of unbidden holiday message.

Carolyn Roth
Lead Midwife for Education
Keele University, School of Nursing & Midwifery
Clinical Education Centre 
Newcastle Road 
Stoke on Trent
ST4 6QG, UK

Tel. 01782 55 65 26




Penny Haora wrote:
> I agree that those "out of office" emails are annoying and add unnecessary junk to my already overloaded email box...
>
> Another benefit of changing the settings I believe would be that when you reply to either a single colleague (reply) or to the whole list (reply all), your email address would automatically appear, to which they can easily send another reply (rather than having to remember to add your own email address in the CC address line or below your response - if the case be that you are not using an email signature - or you are accessing your email remotely via the web, as I do often, in which case the signature does not appear automatically when you reply). (eg as demonstrated below, and above)
>
> best wishes,
> Penny
>
> Penny Haora
> PhD Candidate
> ANU
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> -----Original Message-----
> From:	A forum for discussion on midwifery and reproductive health research. on behalf of Alison Powell
> Sent:	Wed 3/3/2010 10:17 PM
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> Cc:	
> Subject:	Managing the list (query about the deafult for replies)
>
> If other Jiscmail lists work well like that then I don't really see why this one 
> couldn't!
>
> An additional benefit would be that those automatic 'out of office' notifiers 
> wouldn't go to everyone on the list 
>
> Alison Powell
>
>
> At 11:00 03/03/2010 +0000, you wrote:
>
> Sorry I raised it then. I think it is about what you are used to. Most of the 
> lists I am on have a choice of reply to sender or reply to all which sends a 
> message to the list. Most of the time people reply to all and the message goes 
> to the list and there is good discussion, as on this list. It seems that midwives 
> aren't very familiar with using a 'reply to all' option, unlike the people on the 
> other lists. It may be that a trial period would give you a chance to test it, 
> but that most people are worried about trying this.
>
> Alison
>
> Alison Macfarlane
> Department of Midwifery and Child Health
> City University London
> 20 Bartholomew Close
> London EC1A 7QN
> Phone (0) (44) 207 040 5832
> Fax   (0) (44) 207 040 5717
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