Date:  Mon, 17 Nov 1997 09:18:29 -0500
From:  Gregory {Greg} Downing <downingg[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]IS2.NYU.EDU>
Subject: "Reply to list or sender" query

At 12:13 PM 11/17/97 +0900, you wrote:
>P.S. A technical question: Anyone know why the "reply" button on my
>computer works differently for postings from Alan Baragona than from
>other people? If I push "reply", the email goes to him rather than the
>list. For most other posters, the "reply" button starts an email back
>to the list. I mention this because if this is true for other posters, I
>(and other people) may have been inadvertantly sending things just to
>individuals that we thought we were posting to the list.
>

On lists where default-reply is to the list (as is the case on ADS-L), some
addresses and posts will lead to a reply to sender only for some (to me)
unfathomable reason -- you just have to check the address-line before
pressing send, and change as needed. Guess what? -- your note just now was
almost a reply direct to you, but I checked the address-line before pressing
send. This is general good policy in any case, since otherwise one finds
oneself (to cite the opposite problem from the one you mention) posting
private notes to lists just often enough to be really embarrassing.

Gregory {Greg} Downing, at greg.downing[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]nyu.edu or downingg[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]is2.nyu.edu