Reply vs. Reply All (Was TOUGH ONE)

[Stuart Rogers]

Mike Wickham wrote:

> Like Michael, I often send replies to the original poster only, and not 
> to the forum. It's not intentional. It's just that, of all the fora I 
> visit on the Web, this is the only one that is not set by default to 
> reply to the group. I never have to use the Reply All button anywhere 
> else, so I almost always forget and hit the Reply button out of habit.

I've been caught by that, too, but (sometimes embarrassingly) I've been 
caught by other aspects of e-mail addressing. Specifically, it's 
possible for a message to have a Reply-To address that is different from 
the sender's address. It's possible for a message to have a long list of 
recipients that is truncated by the display settings of the mail client 
you're using. If you're not careful, you can end up "replying" to a lot 
of people who never wrote to you.

I have developed the habit of ALWAYS checking who is going to get a 
message before I even start composing it.

-- 
Stuart Rogers
Technical Communicator
Phoenix Geophysics Limited
Toronto, ON, Canada
+1 (416) 491-7340 x 325

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