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On Wed, 2 Mar 2005, Jay West wrote:

> 2) This one seems to be what is hitting a few people. I am not sure why this
> is happening... but for some people when I get an email from them and I hit
> "reply", the "to:" address shows their email address AND the list. So I'm
> actually responding to both places and that's why they get two emails. At
> this point I'm not sure if my own laptop has started doing something
> squirrely so that hitting reply picks up the list address AND the senders
> address, or if it has something to do with the list software, or if it has
> something to do with the senders setup. But anyways, it just dawned on me
> that more than a few times when I've hit reply to a post lately, I get the
> original posters address and the list address, both in the "to" box. Odd.
> I'll watch for it to happen again.

This is not your fault.  As you may recall, we had this discussion about
half a year ago, and it boils down to people not configuring their e-mail
clients properly to obey the reply-to directive in the e-mail headers of
the list messages.

I tried to be list nanny for a short while and converted over a few
people, but got tired of it so now I just ignore it.  It's not that big of
a problem, but it is annoying.

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