[Steppes] One more on Replies

[Steppes Seneschal]

 Antonia,

The main difference is that once you hit reply all, you easily can
delete the extra person from that address list, as I did in this post.
 Cutting and pasting the individual email id has not been a successful
means of limiting email traffic. If you know that the post will make a
double entry, then take the time to remove the extra address. It take
the sender less effort than the old cut and past method, and only the
sender will be receiving the extra post.

Many businesses have gone to limiting company wide email lists to
being allowed only on the Bcc line (blind carbon copy) due to people
often hitting reply and sending their individual reply to the entire
company. One person doing this is funny, 200 doing this is a server
killer.

I know this is different, and some don't like it, but I have not seen
an oops message in a week.  That may be a new record.


On Sat, 15 Jan 2005 07:50:34 -0800 (PST), Dawn Rummel
<dsrummel at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> I believe this change is ill-advised.  In the end, it may not even solve the problem you're hoping to solve and yet create new ones.  Most replies to lists are intended for the list, not just the person who wrote a post, thus one's habit is to hit the button that sends e-mail to the list.  Replies to lists that are intended as private often happen because the writer's habit is to hit the Reply button and he/she forgets to change the address.  When this change is instituted, the new habit will become the "Reply All" button, and the same thing will likely occur.  In addition, all replies to a writer's post will show up in his/her inbox twice - an unneccessary and unwanted burden, IMHO.
> 
> My 2 cents. (sorry to jump in so late)
> 
> Antonia/Dawn
> 
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