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
>