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Re: How do I stop this madness?

To: Jim Franklin <jamesf@groupwbench.org>
Subject: Re: How do I stop this madness?
From: Trevor Boicey <trevor@boicey.com>
Date: Wed, 07 Dec 2005 23:32:10 -0500
Jim Franklin wrote:
> I think it may be related to the "reply-to-sender" setting. Many times 
> I'll receive two addresses in the To: field- one to "shop-talk" and the 
> other to the person the mail is answering. I.e. Bill posts a question, 
> Mike responds but the software puts Bill in the To: field, so Mike adds 
> shop-talk instead of replacing Bill with shop-talk. So Bill gets two 
> copies- a list copy and a personal one. This is yet another (admittedly 
> small) reason that all mailing lists should be set to "reply to group" 
> not "reply to sender".

   Although I agree with you on that one...

   This one is caused by Eric's mail setup. His outgoing mail has it's 
headers munged from the machine he sends it from, which is at megageek.

   So when Eric gets involved in a conversation, some of the replies get 
misdirected and misaddressed.

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Trevor Boicey, P. Eng.
Ottawa, Canada, trevor@boicey.com
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