MOTM

I may have it worse than most of you.

50% of the time, I'm checking the list at work using MS Outlook/Exchange.
"Reply" there sends my message back to the whole list.

The other half the time, I'm at home or on the road dialed into our network
and using the MS Outlook Web Access client. With this, "Reply" goes to the
individual!

And the two clients look almost alike!

That arrangement is so confusing that I've had to stay aware of what I'm
doing from the start. Once or twice I've meant to send somthing to the list
that went to an individual, but so far I don't think I've munged it up the
other way.

Whoops---I meant this to go to Stooge Larry, not to the list. Yikes! Sorry
;)


Mr. T

Look, all you technology challenged folks, it's really very simple...

1. Change your account settings so that you do not get any list 
email. I don't want network people at work seeing my motm email 
traffic anyway.

2. Read the list from the website. It's at:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/motm, in case you don't know.

3. Remember that when you post a reply from the website, it goes to 
the entire list.

4. If you want to reply privately, fire up your email client, paste 
in some reply text, and you will be 100% aware that you are sending 
private mail, because you'll have to manually put in the sender 
address.

Moe, who has never made a mistake since adopting this technique


--- In motm@y..., "Tkacs, Ken" <ken.tkacs@j...> wrote:
>  
> I may have it worse than most of you.
> 
> 50% of the time, I'm checking the list at work using MS 
Outlook/Exchange.
> "Reply" there sends my message back to the whole list.
> 
> The other half the time, I'm at home or on the road dialed into our 
network
> and using the MS Outlook Web Access client. With this, "Reply" goes 
to the
> individual!
> 
> And the two clients look almost alike!
> 
> That arrangement is so confusing that I've had to stay aware of 
what I'm
> doing from the start. Once or twice I've meant to send somthing to 
the list
> that went to an individual, but so far I don't think I've munged it 
up the
> other way.
> 
> Whoops---I meant this to go to Stooge Larry, not to the list. 
Yikes! Sorry

> ;)
> 
> 
> Mr. T

At 8:52 PM +0000 04/07/01, mate_stubb@... wrote:
>
>Look, all you technology challenged folks, it's really very simple...

Those of us who disagree not "technology challenged".  I myself have been
online for over a decade, and run several mailing lists.  We simply have a
difference of opinion.

>1. Change your account settings so that you do not get any list
>email. I don't want network people at work seeing my motm email
>traffic anyway.
>
>2. Read the list from the website. It's at:
>
>http://groups.yahoo.com/group/motm, in case you don't know.

None of us are in any position to tell other people how to read their mail.
There are many good reasons why most people use email software for email.

>3. Remember that when you post a reply from the website, it goes to
>the entire list.
>
>4. If you want to reply privately, fire up your email client, paste
>in some reply text, and you will be 100% aware that you are sending
>private mail, because you'll have to manually put in the sender
>address.

Just because there are ways around it, is still no reason to keep it.  The
"Reply To:" function is designed to override Reply and Reply-To-All
functions in email clients, forcing all replies to that address.  Clearly,
that is not what this list wants, so we shouldn't use that field.

In a message dated 4/9/2001 6:47:32 PM, mark@... writes:

>The
>"Reply To:" function is designed to override Reply and Reply-To-All
>functions in email clients, forcing all replies to that address.  

I wonder if this is just a "feature" of the Yahoo! lists? All the Yahoo! 
lists I'm on seem to work this way.

OTOH, is it really that difficult to actually LOOK at the address of the 
e-mail you are about to send and ask yourself:

"do I really want this e-mail to go to motm@yahoogroups.com?" 

Well do ya, punk!
John (Dirty Harry) Barlow

On Monday, April 9, 2001, at 08:21 PM, jwbarlow@... wrote:

> I wonder if this is just a "feature" of the Yahoo! lists? All the Yahoo!
> lists I'm on seem to work this way.
>
It is just the default setting. The list moderator can change this from
the administration page. Actually I believe it was the old default. New
groups created now should have the standard default.

> OTOH, is it really that difficult to actually LOOK at the address of the
> e-mail you are about to send and ask yourself:
>
> "do I really want this e-mail to go to motm@yahoogroups.com?"
>
The problem is most of us have two buttons, one is "Reply" and normally
goes to the sender, and "Reply-all" which goes to both the sender and 
the list.
The sender can easily be deleted. This is the standard behavior adhered
to by most net mailing lists and understood as normal behavior by authors
of email programs.

With the list set as it is both buttons do the same thing, send to the 
list.

Yahoo Groups has a polling function. Why don't we just set a poll and let
list members vote on the issue?

Tomy