Re: Reply to address

Merv Curley (mervc@pathcom.com)
Sun, 08 Sep 96 10:32:45 +0400

On Sat, 7 Sep 1996 22:37:06 -0400 (EDT), Chin Huang wrote:

>Yarn checks if the original message was sent to other recipients
>as well as to yourself. It does this by looking in the To and Cc
>headers for e-mail addresses that don't match you own e-mail address.
>If that's the case, the Yarn reply function asks if you want to
>send your reply to only the author, or send your reply to the author
>and everyone who received the original message. If the original
>message had a Reply-To header, Yarn gives you an additional option
>of sending your reply to only the Reply-To address.
>
>Messages from the Yarn mailing list have the e-mail address
>yarn-list@listproc.colorado.edu in the To header. Since this
>address is different from your own e-mail address, Yarn knows
>the message was sent to other recipients. When you tell the
>Yarn reply function to send your reply to all recipients, that's
>one of the addresses where your reply is sent.
>
>If you filter the Yarn mailing list into a pseudo-newgroup as in
>the example in the english.doc manual, using the follow-up command
>inside the pseudo-newsgroup will send your follow-up to the mailing
>list address.
>
Hello Chin

Thank you for that explanation. I will be adding it to my
'english.doc' file, <G>.
Another PMMail user has shown me how to send replies to the list in a
very simple manner. Isn't the answer to a problem often very simple?
At any rate I have a bit better idea of how Yarn operates even tho I
don't use all the built in facilities

Merv

Merv Curley (mervc@pathcom.com)
Scarborough, Ont Credit to PmMail