Malcolm, et al -- ...and then Malcolm said... % ... % % Opera 7.23 on windows and reading this as a newsgroup, the reply goes to % the group, as I would expect.
Aha! I think I see the cause of some of the confusion. Many people might expect a mailing list to behave as a newsgroup, but it isn't and so it won't. In a newsgroup, you have two distinct ways of responding to a news post: you can either make another post or you can send an email. Most of the time you will make another post, which means that it goes to the group. Occasionally you might want to send a note to the individual poster, or some group of people, or whatever, but that requires an email (since we don't all have our own private newsgroups dutifully replicated around all of USENET). In a mailing list, everything is an email, so you have to think in email terminology. A bare-bones, basic reply is going to be a mail reply and that means that it will go to the poster, while a list reply is what you need to go back to the list (I avoid the use of "group" above because 'group reply' is already defined otherwise in email). I hope that this sheds some light on the matter, both for folks requesting the munging as well as for those of us (I included) who just can't fathom why anyone would possibly want to break things in that way. I think I'll drop a note to Chip Rosenthal, too, in the hopes that the concept might be fleshed out a bit in his document. HTH & HAND :-D -- David T-G * There is too much animal courage in (play) [EMAIL PROTECTED] * society and not sufficient moral courage. (work) [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Mary Baker Eddy, "Science and Health" http://justpickone.org/davidtg/ Shpx gur Pbzzhavpngvbaf Qrprapl Npg!
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