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RE: [META] proper use of mailing list (was RE: Capturing current handler name in a string variable)
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RE: [META] proper use of mailing list (was RE: Capturing current handler name in a string variable)

  • Subject: RE: [META] proper use of mailing list (was RE: Capturing current handler name in a string variable)
  • From: Joe Kelly <email@hidden>
  • Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2001 13:24:34 -0800
My bad. Will stop.

joe

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul Berkowitz [mailto:email@hidden]
> Sent: Friday, December 28, 2001 8:35 AM
> To: Applescript-Users
> Subject: Re: [META] proper use of mailing list (was RE: Capturing
> current handler name in a string variable)
>
>
> On 12/28/01 8:07 AM, "Sander Tekelenburg" <email@hidden> wrote:
>
> > At 12:17 +0100 UTC, on 28-12-2001, Emmanuel did as Joe Kelly,
> > "'billp'", and so many others on this list do:
> >
> >> To: Joe Kelly <email@hidden>,
> >> "'billp'" <email@hidden>,
> >> Sander Tekelenburg <email@hidden>,
> >> AppleScript Users list <email@hidden>
> >
> > Could you all please stop sending your message to every address that
> > the previous poster just happened to add? I'm getting tired of
> > needlessly receiving duplicates of many of this list's messages.
> >
> > We all subscribe. Just reply to the list and we'll receive
> it. (If your
> > mailclient cannot do this easily, then upgrade it or live with its
> > unease. Don't make it other people's problem.)
>
> I think that this must all come back to the fact that this
> mailing list's
> behavior replies to the sender by default. Very peculiar,
> but that's how
> they do it. So the "easy" way for people with more primitive
> email programs
> to remember to reply to the list must be by doing a Reply to All.
>
> Just in case some people don't know this, there are some
> email programs,
> including at least one free one (and one particularly nice
> one which isn't
> free), which can override a list's behavior and do it "the
> other way". So
> you can have all your mailing lists set to reply to the list
> and never have
> to think about it, nor annoy Sander. I can let you know which
> these are if
> you're interested and can't guess.
>
> --
> Paul Berkowitz
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