> >C<bigger>olleagues: > >We have had many requests over the years to change this and that >- particularly that!! If you hit REPLY to a message from the list, you >will only send the message to the individual who posed the >question. This is intentional on our part. Everyone on the list knows >how to send a message to the list and we do not publish anywhere >how to do that. This is also intentional. When you want your >message to go to the list, it should be by intention, not by >accident. On the most part, we have rescued from public >embarrassment the accidental personal messages that were sent >to the list. Remember, you get a clean list because this is a >monitored list - we review messages and remove the trash mail that >squeak in... The other "advantage" of having the reply set to the sender is that the sender (and not the list) gets all the "out of office" auto-replies and address failures. Annoying for the sender but saves everyone getting annoyed (or the list manager having to deal with it). Adrian
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