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Don Parris wrote:
Thank you for pointing out my failure to eliminate your private address from the reply box. I have to hit "Reply All" to be able to reply to the list, for some reason. Other lists I subscribe to allow me simply to use the reply button. The e-mail automatically goes to the list - not the sender. With the SUSE lists, I occasionally forget to delete the sender's private e-mail. It's never intentional, I assure you - unless the sender requests the private contact, of course. Perhaps SUSE could change the way the lists work? Doing so would eliminate such accidents. Most of the time, I do it right. Perhaps I should include in my tag line "Any submissions to your private e-mail account via this list, on my part, are purely accidental"?
Seems to me it would be more intuitive to have the "relpy" button as the default method of responding. Then, if I need to add your private address, I can do so with the "Reply All" button (or manually). I use Mozilla Mail 1.7.2 If you know a way I can fix this to automagically reply to the list w/out offending everyone in the process, I'm all ears.
I do the same thing from time to time. I belong to a lot of lists, and 3 of them are setup to reply to sender, the rest reply to the list. I do NOT want to start a war over this. I accept that this list is the way it is and I'm not going to change it. However, please understand that people will make mistakes when doing repetitive, automatic things, like replying to a list, especially when list response methods vary. On the other two lists with this setting, everyone just accepts that they are going to get an extra response. I try to not do that on any of them, and usually do remember. I just routinely delete the extra responses from others who haven't caught on. I don't know the OP's volume of email, but I get well over 1000 emails a day (not including spam), and tend to process things really quickly; I have to or I'd never get through everything. This can lead to such mistakes. I have also accidently PO'd a number of people by accidently posting really OT, personal things that have no place on lists like this. It happens because I type in the reply address quickly, sometimes too quickly, especially when under stress. That's not the list's fault, it's mine, but to my mind, way to easy to do. So, please have patience with others who probably have different thinking patterns and practices that may be different from yours, where the status quo can be confusing. Regards to all, Jim