Re: [NTLK] reply doesn't do what you think it does was: Re: NewtonWorld 'magazine'

~~~ On 2007/03/14 22:06, William Pociengel at hseldon@my.wgu.edu wrote ~~~

> Lord Groundhog wrote:
>> ~~~ On 2007/03/14 19:30, William Pociengel at hseldon@my.wgu.edu wrote ~~~
>>
>>> FYI: hitting reply to an email does NOT send it anywhere but to the
>>> list. if you want to send it to the person you cave to copy their email
>>> address from the posting.
>>
>>
>> This is a useful point to make on any list from time to time.
>>
>> If you're using Entourage, there's another way to contact someone off-list
>> and not also post to the list. You just click on "Reply to all" and then
>> delete the list's address. All that's left is the sender's address.
>
> except the senders email doesn't show up in reply to all as the list
> header grabs the reply-to and ships it back to the list only. because
> the sender and reply-to are set in the header by the listserv. you need
> to grab the From header and reply-to take precedence (I think?)
>
> william
>

FWIW, William, I just did it again now and clicked the "reply to all"
button. If I weren't meaning to reply to the whole list, I now could simply
delete the list address and you'd be the only one getting this message. But
since I wanted to demonstrate that it works, I regret you'll get to read
this twice. Sorry!
 
Shalom.
Christian

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