[Dialogue] Apology for clogging up the list serve with personalmessages . . .

[Sunny Walker]

Hmmm, so reply all now goes to both (with my Outlook email program) -- I
think how we had it is easier. I prefer my delete key to my poor memory to
put the dialogue address in when I reply, given I'm used to just replying.
For some of us "old birds", new flight paths are harder to find.

Sunny Walker
Senior Facilitator
Council of Energy Resource Tribes
303-282-7576 xtn. 12; cell: 303-587-3017
FAX: 303-282-7574
695 S. Colorado Blvd.
Denver, CO 80246
 
CERT MISSION
To support member Tribes as they develop their
management capabilities and use their energy resources
as the foundation for building stable,
balanced self-governed economies, according to each Tribe's vision and
priorities.
 
-----Original Message-----
From: dialogue-bounces at wedgeblade.net
[mailto:dialogue-bounces at wedgeblade.net] On Behalf Of Tim Wegner
Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2007 5:30 PM
To: Colleague Dialogue
Subject: Re: [Dialogue] Apology for clogging up the list serve with
personalmessages . . .

Normally I don't like to discuss list mechanics in the list itself, 
but I'll make an exception because maybe we can improve things.

Jim asked:

> Jim Wiegel here. Is there a way to send replies back to the person 
> vs. the whole list? Whenever I click reply it seems to want to reply 
> twice, but only to the whole list, not the individual. 
> 
> Is this a list serve setting or something in my email?? 

The answer is: both. It's not too hard to edit the "to:" line in your 
reply 
to exclude the list. The details depend on your email program.

BUT - this is also a list setting that I can change. Against the 
recommendation of the mailman software we are using, I have set the 
default action of "reply" to reply to the list, rather than just the 
poster. I set it that way because I assumed (perhaps incorrectly) 
that that was the software behavior that most people wanted. I would 
be most happy to change this behavior if it's the consensus, or maybe 
just try for a while as an experiment.

If I make this change, it will be a little harder to keep the thread 
going by replying to the list, and a little easier to reply to just 
the person.

OK, I just made an executive decision. Starting ... now replies will 
go to the poster and not the list. So if you want the reply to go to 
the list (for example a reply to this posting) you have to make sure 
the list address appears in the address field of your email. I will 
change things back Thursday unless people prefer the new way. Note 
that (for the moment) I ONLY changed the dialogue list - the OE and 
springboard lists still default to the whole list.

The effect of this change will be to minimize those postings that 
were meant to go to the person but went to the whole list by mistake, 
at the expense of making it harder to post to the list.

If you have opinions on this please email me privately, though a 
brief discussion here on this topic is probably OK.

Tim



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