It's Official: NOAD Demeans Self for PR Gold (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Joel S. Berson]

At 11/16/2010 10:36 AM, Ronald Butters wrote:
>My first impulse, though, was to respond only to Bill--and I noticed
>that it is not easy to reply to the author of a posting without
>replying to the whole list. Is there some way that ADS-L could
>change the default for "REPLY" to be the  original author rather
>than the list as a whole (or is this just a problem with my e-mail)?

It is a problem with you, not your e-mail.  Cut and paste the From
header into the To header of your response.

(Changing the list reply to the original author is not a good
choice.  With many email applications that will reply ONLY to the
individual sender.)

Joel

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