TONY@YORKVM2.BITNET (A. M. (Tony) Cichan) (02/13/90)
My apologies to the subscribers of this list for my previous message on Replies to the List; and most sincerely and in particular to those I had so unnecessarily and insensitively listed in my message. Though the second part of my message contained useful information, the first part should never have existed. Many thanks to all those kind souls who filled my E-mail box with genuinely thoughtful comments and suggestions about replying to List E-mail and some of the difficulties and possible solutions. I shall summarize here: Point 1. Nothing replaces experience and experience comes from making mistakes. And even the experienced make mistakes (tell me about it). Therefor I should be willing to overlook someone elses errors if I want the same consideration extended to me. Point 2. On some systems so much information gets stripped off from the headers on E-mail messages that the information of who the originator was, is gone. The answer is for everyone to include your name and E-mail address in the closing so that everyone will know how to contact you. On VM/CMS sytems one can create a file (such as you see at the end of this message) which is automatically appended when the message is sent. Other systems may have similar features. Point 3. Again, on VM/CMS systems the Reply command has several options. One being FROM. Therefor, typing REPLY FROM on the command line of the E-mail message should direct your Reply to the originator rather than to the List (I suggest a test to be sure it works for you). However, pressing the Reply key on mail that is from a List ensures that your reply will be distributed to everyone on the list. And that's OK if that is what you wanted. Point 4. When you have all these wonderful, thoughtful people filling your E-mail box with solutions and suggestions, share them. Summarize the responses to the list. Don't just leave every- one wondering. This is a WordPerfect Products List and I've taken up more than enough space with non-WP stuff. Thanks for your patience and please don't feel you have to respond to my E-mail address; it's killing me with kindness (I subscribe to 5 other lists, not a lot, but enough). Thanks Tracy. -----------=========================------------- A. M. (Tony) Cichan TONY@YORKVM2 (416)736-5147 Department of Facilities Planning and Management York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada