Date   : Mon, 17 Oct 2005 15:50:57 +0100 (BST)
From   : Tim Fardell <tim.fardell@...>
Subject: Re: Reply To Address For List

On Mon, 17 Oct 2005, Colin wrote:

> Of course, all being interested in computers of one sort or another and
> probably well capable of writing programs in BASIC at the very least,
> actually looking at the e-mail we are writing to see who we are actually
> sending it to (it's only a few cms above where we type it) is totally beyond
> us. We just hit "reply" and "send". (I'm as guilty as most of us of doing
> this and nearly did it with this one).
> I wonder what that tells us about ourselves?
> One would think that we would be more likely to double-check everything than
> most (remember the hours of searching through printouts for the missing ; or
> "no such variable at line xxx" and similar or the one that just dumped the
> program and you couldn't figure out why?).
> Colin Hill

This from a man using Microsoft Outlook Express as his mailer ;-)

Trouble is, you get used to hitting Reply, which replies to the sender and 
not the list, so by the time you come to the checking phase, you discover 
that you haven't got the address of the mailing list in the TO: box, and 
have to go off and find it!
I've now got into the habit of always hitting Reply All, and deleting 
everyone except the list. But I frequently *almost* forget. 

This subject has been done-to-death in the past, and the listadmin does 
not seem keen to make any changes :-(