Dragaera

Straw Poll about "Reply-to"

Richard Suitor rsuitor at cjwrfs.net
Sat Nov 30 05:13:40 PST 2002

On Fri, 29 Nov 2002 22:38:53 -0600, Mia McDavid <mia_mcdavid at attbi.com>
wrote:

>I have just hit "reply all" and you and dragaera have both popped up in 
>my address box.
>
>Do you have two copies of this?

I of course am not Iain and did not have two copies of the above "this",
but have received 2 copies of a variety of responses where I have been in
the thread.  I do not have anything that detects and removes duplicates at
this end.

For this "this", I hit reply-to-all, and in addition to the list address,
your address and Iain's were added.  I have received several like that,
also, but I still only receive two copies when I am one of the people in
addition to the list address.

What I normally do is just hit reply, double click on the TO address, which
selects it, and type in my short nickname for the address book entry that
contains the list address.  I find that easier and more satisfactory.  What
I occasionally do is forget and just send it to one person, which would
have been you in this case.

But there's nothing particularly wrong with the two emails if they're short
- delete is easy.  If they are long, multiple copies are a hardship on
those with slow connections.

Richard