Been there, tried that, never has . . . . whoops, it worked this time.  Thanks,
Ed.

boB


"Moller, Edward N." wrote:

> Do what I just did.  Click on REPLY TO ALL.
>
> Edward N. Moller
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bob Griebel [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2001 2:04 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Dirth of postings
>
> Wayne,
>
> After overcompensating in just a couple days for all the posting I haven't
> done for a couple years, I now see an admin issue I merely alluded to a week
> ago as a significant question.  Why aren't responses automatically addressed
> to the list when the respondent presses "Reply"?
>
> On every other email list, that's a standard function.  I readily agree that
> nobody else would screw up at manually changing the address as regularly as
> I, but I also suspect it accounts for many messages not reaching the list as
> intended, particularly from casual users.  I'll bet many haven't even
> realized their messages didn't post, or haven't figured out why, or haven't
> wanted to bother with reposting to the list what had already gone to the
> author, or merely decided they don't want to hassle with a list that's hard
> to work with.
>
> Unidentified sources report that it's having an adverse effect on keeping
> the
> list alive.
>
> boB
>
> "Wayne T. Smith" wrote:
>
> > On 4 Dec 2001 at 10:14, Rowe, Thomas wrote, in part:
> > > I'm starting to wonder how many of us are left on this list.  There are
> > > almost no postings coming through, ...
> >
> > Hi Tom,  guess you awoke a sleeping giant ;-)
> >
> > Both subscriptions and redistributions are down considerably from a few
> > years ago, but we still have about 700 subscriptions and, from the
> > activity of the past 10 days, something to discuss now and again.
> >
> > cheers, wayne
> >