Re: [chirp_users] how does one reply
HOW you reply to a mailing list message depends slightly on what kind of email system you are using.
With the vast majority of email client software and most webmail systems, all you need to do is click on the REPLY button. Most email systems will automatically insert the correct mail list reply address, which is chirp_users@intrepid.danplanet.com -- if your email system doesn't insert the correct address, then most likely it will use the individual email address of the person who sent the message you are replying to. You can easily check to see what address your email system put on the reply message. If it put chirp_users@intrepid.danplanet.com as the TO address, you are fine. If it put some other address, you have a choice of how to fix the problem: 1) You can delete the incorrect address then manually type or copy&paste the correct address chirp_users@intrepid.danplanet.com into the TO address block or 2) You could try using REPLY ALL instead of just REPLY. In this case the email system _should_ insert both the mail list address _and_ the individual address; then you just delete the individual address (If REPLY ALL doesn't work, you are back with just Option 1)
The other thing that most email systems will do when you click REPLY (or REPLY ALL) is to automatically quote the entire message you are replying to. It is always polite to trim any unnecessary text from the quoted text in your reply. This is especially important is you are subscribed to the mail list in Digest mode -- NEVER quote an entire digest message in your reply! If you are subscribed to receive individual messages, you should still delete the extraneous header and footer lines that are automatically added by the mail list and the email system; you should usually also delete any lengthy portions of the original message that are not related to your reply. For example, in this reply, I deleted header information such as the date of your message and the repeated copy of the subject line, I deleted the footer lines that tell the reader which mail list this message was posted to (the mail list is going to add those footer lines back in, and there is no need to have them twice); and I trimmed your introduction and signature, leaving only the questions you asked, because this is what I was replying to. Your original message was short enough that I didn't really need to trim those three lines, but I did that as part of the example of trimming the original text to just the significant part for a reply.
Whether or not you will see your own message back from the list depends entirely on your email system -- the list is definitely going to send you a copy of your own message -- the vast majority of email client software and most webmail systems will include that message in your inbox. The one significant exception to this behavior is GMAIL (which apparently is what you are using). Gmail automatically filters out all messages which it sees as being FROM your own gmail address; therefore it will normally not let you see your own message coming back from the mail list.
-----Original Message----- Date: Thu, 15 May 2014 20:54:58 +0200 From: Christian Schwarz coffeeisallineed@gmail.com
how does one reply to a email that was sent by the mailing-list? And does one see one?s own replies once posted?
Good Morning, thank you Milton and N4AOF for clearing that up for me.
Cheers, Chris.
On May 16, 2014, at 7:04 AM, N4AOF n4aof.tom@gmail.com wrote:
HOW you reply to a mailing list message depends slightly on what kind of email system you are using.
With the vast majority of email client software and most webmail systems, all you need to do is click on the REPLY button. Most email systems will automatically insert the correct mail list reply address, which is chirp_users@intrepid.danplanet.com -- if your email system doesn't insert the correct address, then most likely it will use the individual email address of the person who sent the message you are replying to. You can easily check to see what address your email system put on the reply message. If it put chirp_users@intrepid.danplanet.com as the TO address, you are fine. If it put some other address, you have a choice of how to fix the problem:
- You can delete the incorrect address then manually type or copy&paste the
correct address chirp_users@intrepid.danplanet.com into the TO address block or 2) You could try using REPLY ALL instead of just REPLY. In this case the email system _should_ insert both the mail list address _and_ the individual address; then you just delete the individual address (If REPLY ALL doesn't work, you are back with just Option 1)
The other thing that most email systems will do when you click REPLY (or REPLY ALL) is to automatically quote the entire message you are replying to. It is always polite to trim any unnecessary text from the quoted text in your reply. This is especially important is you are subscribed to the mail list in Digest mode -- NEVER quote an entire digest message in your reply! If you are subscribed to receive individual messages, you should still delete the extraneous header and footer lines that are automatically added by the mail list and the email system; you should usually also delete any lengthy portions of the original message that are not related to your reply. For example, in this reply, I deleted header information such as the date of your message and the repeated copy of the subject line, I deleted the footer lines that tell the reader which mail list this message was posted to (the mail list is going to add those footer lines back in, and there is no need to have them twice); and I trimmed your introduction and signature, leaving only the questions you asked, because this is what I was replying to. Your original message was short enough that I didn't really need to trim those three lines, but I did that as part of the example of trimming the original text to just the significant part for a reply.
Whether or not you will see your own message back from the list depends entirely on your email system -- the list is definitely going to send you a copy of your own message -- the vast majority of email client software and most webmail systems will include that message in your inbox. The one significant exception to this behavior is GMAIL (which apparently is what you are using). Gmail automatically filters out all messages which it sees as being FROM your own gmail address; therefore it will normally not let you see your own message coming back from the mail list.
-----Original Message----- Date: Thu, 15 May 2014 20:54:58 +0200 From: Christian Schwarz coffeeisallineed@gmail.com
how does one reply to a email that was sent by the mailing-list? And does one see one?s own replies once posted?
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