Hey guys, lighten up! And read what he said. Those of us forced to use
poorly designed mailers might find it easier to have  both addresses in the
Reply-To field. Personally, I disagree, but I will do so politely. (And I
can speak with authority about poorly designed mailers. I am forced not only
to use Outlook, but some bright person disabled "Reply All" so that in my
office  we _have_ to cut and paste to carry out a group conversation.)

Yes, people should think about who they are sending to. Yes, education might
help, but awareness helps more. But a good mail client would make it easier.

BTW, netiquette never was what it used to be (or at least it hasn't been
since 1979).

- Kai.

"Do just once what others say you can't do, and you will never pay attention
to their limitations again." -- James R. Cook

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Remco Post [mailto:r.post AT SARA DOT NL]
> Sent: Tuesday, 17 December 2002 4:39 AM
> To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Subject: [Very OT] Re: Can we cut out the "me, toos" (was Re: TSM
> Presentation)
>
>
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> Sender:       "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU>
> Poster:       Remco Post <r.post AT SARA DOT NL>
> Subject:      [Very OT] Re: Can we cut out the "me, toos" (was Re: TSM
>               Presentation)
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>
> On Tue, 17 Dec 2002 10:45:05 +0100
> Gerhard Rentschler <g.rentschler AT RUS.UNI-STUTTGART DOT DE> wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> > probably a change in the listserv config of this mailing
> list may help.
> > Each mail I get from this list has the list as reply
> address. For replying
> > to the sender you have to cut the mail address from the
> mail and do a
> > forward. This is the case at least with Outlook.
> > It might help a little bit if with "reply to all" I could get both
> > addresses, the list's and the sender's address. If I want
> to reply only to
> > the sender, I could remove the list address.
> > Best regards
> > Gerhard
> >
>
> So now the list is at fault when people choose to use e-mail
> clients that
> cannot behave. errr. Probably, people should start thinking
> about to who
> they send their emails, and what they send. Apart from
> me-toos, annoying
> behaviour includes the out-of-office autoreplys (perfreably
> to the list ;-)
> and the ~20 line standard disclaimer, which in itself is
> complete nonsense
> on any mailinglist, and probably even in normal
> person-to-person e-mail.
> Netiquette isn't what it used to be... :-)
>