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[James Freer]

2008/7/25 Tim Green <timothy.j.green at gmail.com>:
> 2008/7/25 Wayne Stallwood <ALUGlist at digimatic.co.uk>:
>> On Fri, 2008-07-25 at 15:13 +0100, James Freer wrote:
>>> Thanks for replying. I did mean to send it to the list. It seems that
>>> one has got to enter TO: main address each email to this group. When
>>> one just does REPLY it goes direct to the sender - that's what i did
>>> this time. I don't know why it should be this way on this group as
>>> others like yahoo all go straight to the list... that's the way it
>>> should work.
>>
>> To be honest that behaviour is more down to your mail client than the
>> list, and looking at your headers you aren't using a mail client but
>> google's webmail interface. A lot of mail clients have a reply to list
>> button that reads the header in the mail from the list which announces
>> it as a list and provides the correct reply address, others allow you to
>> set a default reply address for a folder and then have a rule drop the
>> alug mails into this folder. Unfortunately I think most webmail (inc
>> google) lacks this functionality.
>
> As another Google Mail user, I can testify to the observed behaviour.
> It's a toss up between using Reply and remembering to change the To:,
> or using Reply To All and moving ALUG from Cc: to To:.
>
> Tim.

For me i think it'll be the Reply to All. As far as group lists go i
think it is far better to reply to list as a whole... copy and paste
email address for a private email. If one uses Reply to All for
private/direct emails one isn't likely to make the mistake on the odd
off day! I've used that on the yahoo classic car groups for 8 years
now ( i belong to quite a few). [almost forgot to paste in ALUG this
time].

james