Hi Karen and all Personally I have not been troubled by the changes, whereas some have reported their ire I use Thunderbird with gmail and download my mail, each shows the From, the Reply to and the To addresses so I can see who they are from, just as I did before (just in a different order in the mail header) The main part I think you may have missed off is that you should use "Reply All" (rather than just reply) Using reply will send to the original poster and not the list In Thunderbird I have the options of Reply (to OP) Reply to List, and Reply All, which brings up the List and any other address in the post address fields As has always been the case, as you rightly say, the best practice, whatever method you use, is to *check* the addresses you are sending your post/reply to Nivard Ovington in Cornwall (UK) On 12/07/2014 17:18, [email protected] wrote: > Morning, all! > > I'm not sure if the changes have arrived for this list, or quite what they'll look like (don't have any messages in my inbox from the list this morning), but ... due to changes that ISPs have been implementing to reduce spam, it has become important that messages FROM RootsWeb say they're from RootsWeb, rather than from the person who sent the message to the mailing list. > > So if all the messages are "From: [email protected]", then how are you to tell which are from me ([email protected]) and which are from someone else, etc.? I don't know ... perhaps the original sender will be in the Reply-To line, or in the Sender line, or elsewhere ... or nowhere! We'll have to watch and see. > > Meanwhile, let me recommend two good habits to use in general, but especially here and now. ;-) > > 1. When you hit "reply" ... check to see WHO you're replying to and if that's who you had in mind. (For the who/whom crowd, what I just wrote makes me wince but I'm gonna let it be.) > > 2. Include who you are and your e-mail address at the end of your message (and whack off ANYTHING else ... it's a mailing list, everyone saw the earlier message, you just annoy the people in digest mode by endlessly repeating it). Thus: > > Karen

On 7/12/2014 10:36 AM, [email protected] wrote: > The main part I think you may have missed off is that you should use > "Reply All" (rather than just reply) When using Firefox Thunderbird, don't click big part of "Reply to List" button, click on arrow to the right of it to see other option, "Reply to All" and use that one. (I am using latest version and haven't found a way to separate that button.) David Samuelsen