North American Fruit Explorers mailing list at ibiblio

["William C. Garthright" <billg@inebraska.com>]

> >     Can we change this list to where both addresses show at the top of a reply, so we can easily send private posts?  I'm not the only one who has done this sort of thing.  This is the only group I am on where you have to really stop and think and then scrounge out the address of the person you want to post privately. 
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> what email program are you using?  it may already be there...
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Yes. I use Thunderbird, the free (open-source) email software from 
Mozilla, and it shows both the "From" address (which is the poster's 
address) and, just below that, the "Sender" address, which is the NAFEX 
list. That's very handy.

HOWEVER, if I just click on <Reply> as I usually do, or even <Reply 
All>, my response will only go to the list. So I can't say that this is 
much help with avoiding mistakes. The poster's address is always 
available if I want to send a private message, but I have to think about 
it first. I still make mistakes, as we all do. So I wouldn't worry about 
it. Your message could have been a LOT more embarrassing, after all. A 
secretary at work once sent an email about her sex life to the entire 
company. Now THAT was probably embarrassing! :-)

Bill


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