I use Outlook Express for e-mail, and there are two options for reply provided, "Reply All" or "Reply" (to Sender). The first option distributes the reply through AUS-NSW-PENRITH-L@rootsweb.com, the other only sends the reply to the individual to whom I am responding, in the case, "John". However, as I have clicked 'Reply All' today - good morning everybody! (Poor John may get this twice!) I really enjoy reading all your responses and seeing how widespread is the interest in Penrith. I often pick up precious little nuggets of research directions from stray comments in reply to another message, so thank you all and please keep them coming. ----- Original Message ----- From: "John" <byrnesj@minerals.nsw.gov.au> To: <AUS-NSW-PENRITH-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, February 28, 2003 12:42 PM Subject: Re: [AUS-NSW-PENRITH] Why am I getting everyone's reply to other people's emails > NOTICE: This message is intended for the addressee named and may contain > confidential or privileged information. If you are not the intended > recipient, please notify the sender and delete the message. Views > expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, and are not > necessarily the views of the NSW Department of Mineral Resources. > > > > Re: what Ned wrote: > > > Hello, > > > Eeer, maybe I misunderstand this(?), but if not, then maybe I know some of > the answer here? > > Basically, I think it's to do with what email lists are created for. > > "Is there any way to stop getting emails that are for other members on the > list?????" > > Yes, of course, seeing that they say one can "do anything" with computers .. > but would you really 'WANT' to do that, because distributing/sharing others > peoples' business is the raison d'etre behind most mailing lists [esp. if > they are something of the more chatty variety .. otherwise they would just > be unilateral, one-way-stream affairs, consisting of some authority or > another merrily churning out announcements and facts and stuff for > consumption by an unseen and unresponding audience. And it is true that > there are some purely-distributive lists like that in existence, which do > not allow members to cross-communicate, i.e. they are not party-line lists. > But those sorts of lists are quite uncommon and not the norm]. > > If I guess right, the people/emails being referred to could have chosen > instead to have been off-list answers back to Danielle to get the materials > on offer about Castlereagh (assuming that is what's being referred to?). > > But the practice of people just hitting the 'reply' key and > answering/talking back on via the list is commonplace too, and doesn't worry > me at all. In fact I like to see that lists are "alive" because so many you > join turn out to be quite moribund and only spurt into a bit of life once or > twice a year. > > As for worrying about distributing personal addresses to all on the list, > eeeer Ned, I hate to say it but it seems to me that you have just sent > everyone on the list your own address !? > > Mine by the way is PO Box 264, Summer Hill 2130 and I do love to hear about > good old Castlereagh .. best little river flat this side of the Blue > Mountains. But I'm extremely biassed, I will admit that much, as I regard > Castlereagh as the virtual "seat" of the Australian branch of our family. > > Cheers, > > > > John (a.k.a. Wombat) > > [Strathfield: z2204020@POP3.student.unsw.edu.au > [Work (for the gov'mint): byrnesj@minerals.nsw.gov.au > > > At 12:15 PM 2/28/03 +1100, you wrote: > > >G'day Danielle > > >Why am I getting everyone's reply to other people's emails, as the old > saying goes, "It's cloggin up me works. > > >Is there any way to stop getting emails that are for other members on the > list????? It is also letting other people know of people's personal > addresses that many may not like to give out willy nilly. > > >Ned Sinclair > > >2/15 Holloway Road, > >CROYDON VIC 3136 > >(03) 9727 5709 > >ned_sinclair@iprimus.com.au > > > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 >