[Zmagnette] Replies to list...

[Allen Bachelder]

Well, theoretically yes, Wray, except the server has a built-in feature that cuts out most of the duplicate posts.  Having said that, I have gotten a couple of duplicate replies because when you hit the "reply all" function it addresses the sender individually as well as ZMagnette...  Why duplicates are filtered usually but not always is beyond my pay grade.  

Again, I can fix it and I have yet to hear an objection to that.  But the polls haven't closed yet...  EVERYBODY: I just decided to impose an arbitrary deadline of midnight Sunday night - EST.  That means you Left Coast guys have until 3 AM Monday, in case you want to give it further careful consideration...  ;-)

Allen
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Allen & Florrie Bachelder       =iii=<
Spring Creek Home for Wayward MGs
'57 ZB, '65 B, '69 C/GT, '73 B/GT
North Street, MI 48049, USA
http://www.mgexperience.net/member/bachldrs
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On Oct 19, 2013, at 3:02 PM, wraylemke at compuserve.com wrote:

> What will happen now is that you get two replies for every one of your posts, one from me (and everyone else responding to your post) to you, and one from me to the list to you.
>  
> Everyone else on the list will get only one reply.
> 
> Wray
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> 
>  
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Allen Bachelder <bachldrs at comcast.net>
> To: zmagnette <zmagnette at autox.team.net>
> Sent: Sat, Oct 19, 2013 2:09 pm
> Subject: [Zmagnette] Replies to list...
> 
> OK, we've all noted that with this new list, replies go to the sender only.  You can over-ride this by using a "reply all" function. A computer guru I am not, but I have been to the administrative site and studied the material on the "reply to" function.  It looks like I can change this easily, but the instructions STRONGLY recommend  against it.  I'm not sure I can understand why - outside of the obvious reason that emails intended for one other person only can embarrass or hurt when accidentally sent to an entire list.  The verb to "mung" comes up in this context.  I have googled the term "mung", and have learned only that it is an acronym meaning "modify until no good".  I fail to understand it's use in this context.  I mean, what are the ramifications if I modify my "reply to" function until [it's] no good. Can somebody 'splain...?
> 
> As it is, the default setting prevents the heartbreak of munging as well as accidental hurt or embarrassment.  I can see that it might also be useful in minimizing use of the list for private messaging.  For example: I ask the list if anyone has a spare ZA ashtray.  The responses will come to me only, not the list, and further correspondence about ZA ashtrays, the history of ashtrays, the origin of the term "ashtray", and failed experiments in the design and construction of ashtrays will be restricted to only those interested. 
> 
> OTOH, we are all long-accustomed to a list that automatically sends all our replies to the list, and the change will put us all on a new learning curve.
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> So - I am left to asking your preferences before I press the magic buttons.  And I know I'm putting myself in a dangerous spot by asking because the results will be about half and half and no matter what I do I'm going to piss somebody off.  To ease my pain, I'll say that barring a strong objection, I'm strongly inclined to make the change back to that to which we are accustomed.
> 
> Yours for better listing... (or is "listing" simply precedent to "sinking"?),
> Allen
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> Spring Creek Home for Wayward MGs
> '57 ZB, '65 B, '69 C/GT, '73 B/GT
> North Street, MI 48049, USA
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