[time-nuts] Problems with Lady Heather and Asus Aspire A515-55 laptop with an HP 58503A GPS receiver

[Hal Murray]

Don N5CID said:
> Ctrl-R will 'reply' only to the sender.

There are at least two problems with that.

The first is that not all mail software has the same UI and this list has a 
wide collection of people running a wide collection of software.  (Ctrl-R on 
mine doesn't do anything.)


The second is that not all mailing lists do the same thing.

The headers of Don's message (when it got here) include:
Reply-to: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement
 <time-nuts at lists.febo.com>
Sender: "time-nuts" <time-nuts-bounces at lists.febo.com>
From: Don Lewis <dlewis6767 at austin.rr.com>

So Replying only to the Sender will go to the whole list.  Or maybe not, 
depending on what your software thinks "Sender" means.


There is another worm is this corner of the can.  Some anti-spam measures 
allow systems to say "our mail only comes from these IP Addresses:  ..."  That 
broke most mailing list software.  Some list software will change the From on 
mail from those systems to something like:
  Taka Kamiya via time-nuts <time-nuts at lists.febo.com>

So even if your mail software thinks that Sender means From or has a shortcut 
to reply to the From and that does what you want when you check carefully, it 
may not work right the next time you try it.



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These are my opinions.  I hate spam.