If you look in the "header" to the message you will find the individual
sender's e-mail address, e. g. Nick Hammond is
Nick.Hammond@saabsystems.com.au
Best regards,
Rob Housman
A070
-----Original Message-----
Behalf Of Nick Hammond
Subject: Re: Protocol
Peter,
> could I suggest that people affix an automatically generated 'signature'
> to their e-mails which include their personal e-mail address
> This would enable a direct reply when it is not necessary to communicate
> to the whole forum.
Like you, I find the "default" behaviour of the forum annoying. When you
respond to a message, the reply is automatically addressed to the forum and
contains no trace of the originator's e-mail address. This means that "me
too" and other messages which would be best sent only to the originator are
frequently broadcast to everyone. The result is a large reduction in signal
to noise ratio.
There is a way to adjust your personal settings on the list server to alter
the behaviour -- for example so that "reply" goes to the originator and
"reply to all" goes to the forum. I did this last year but the settings were
lost when the list server crashed a few months ago and I haven't got around
to fixing it. In the meantime the simplest approach is to copy the
originator's e-mail address (higlight and press Control-C) from the original
message before pressing "reply", then to paste it over the forum address
(highlight the forum address and press Control-V) in the reply message.
Best regards,
Nick
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