The mail programs, being stupid, think the list was the sender; so they
send mail to the place it came from.  JFW is supposed to have a specialized
'reply to author' script, but the consensus seems to be that it doesn't
work.  So if you want to respond to an individual, the only sure thing is
to get his address from the list posting and put it into the 'to' field.
I'm a lousy typist, so i do a lot of cut/pasting with Windows 95.  One
place, in my opinion, where it's loads easier than DOS.
Ann



At 02:31 PM 1/19/99 -0500, you wrote:
>Harv,
>
>I think you have it right. I'm responding now, having hit the 'reply to
>author' button and I'll bet it shows up on the list. My memory is that those
>who want a 'private' reply to a post they've sent to a list ask for a
>private reply in the post and include their email address. Let's see what
>others here say.
>
>Bill Carroll, Toronto
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Harv Robinson <[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
>Date: Tuesday, January 19, 1999 11:06 AM
>Subject: Re: flaming and an apology if one is needed
>
>
>>I thought that the reply to author command didn't work for sending mail to
>>an individual, who had sent a message to a list, because of the way the
>>lists are set up.  Maybe I've got this wrong, but I'm using Outlook
>Express,
>>and before that I used Internet Mail in Explorer 3.02, and both these mail
>>programs  also sent reply to author messages to the list as well as to the
>>person who had originated them.  Maybe it has to do with the way the
>headers
>>are written.  We might have to trim the headers in order to send a private
>>message to somebody if our message was occasioned by a message from that
>>person that we got from a list.  That being the case, however , it's
>>probably just as simple to write a new subject line for a different message
>>to the person.  Knowledgeable people on the list can shed light on this,
>but
>>it's a vexing problem.
>>
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