Mark Hattam wrote: > > A "reply to all" sends a message to the sender *and* to the list. > Does this only work in Eudora, or also in Outlook / Outlook Express? That is correct, however that means; 1) If somebody forgets to "reply to all", the list doesn't see the reply 2) People get 2 copies of mails once via the list and once direct. These people then send e-mails to [email protected] to say our mail is broken. (this is in addition to people who send mail to say that our mail is broken when they get a reply to somebody else's question via the list!) > Won't setting the "reply-to-address" to the list potentially make a > mail-loop and we'll get erroring messages bouncing around? Nope. Bounces go to the envelope-sender, not reply-to. -- Dave Mayall

You can delete the unwanted one(s) from the To: line of the reply ... but two emails is probably better than none. May have an advantage too where the person being replied to is on Digest Mode, but the reply gets to him/her straight away. Could be argued both ways. As long as mail loops aren't set up, why not? Mark - - At 3:51 pm +0100 2/10/01, Dave Mayall wrote: >Mark Hattam wrote: >> >> A "reply to all" sends a message to the sender *and* to the list. >> Does this only work in Eudora, or also in Outlook / Outlook Express? > >That is correct, however that means; >1) If somebody forgets to "reply to all", the list doesn't see the reply >2) People get 2 copies of mails once via the list and once direct. These > people then send e-mails to [email protected] to say > our mail is broken. (this is in addition to people who send mail > to say that our mail is broken when they get a reply to somebody > else's question via the list!) > >> Won't setting the "reply-to-address" to the list potentially make a >> mail-loop and we'll get erroring messages bouncing around? > >Nope. > >Bounces go to the envelope-sender, not reply-to. > >-- >Dave Mayall