Apparently some folks don't know how to reply to a message without sending it to the entire list. If you simply hit "reply to", it's going to go to 650 people. The way to prevent that is to hit "reply to", but find the originator's email address (which will probably be in blue) down in the first few lines of your reply, copy it with the mouse, and then paste it over the KRnet address. If you don't know how to copy and paste something with your computer, you probably need to find a 5 year old and ask them to show you. By spending 5 seconds to replace KRnet with the guy's email address that you want, you'll save 650 people 5 seconds each reading your email that was only meant for one guy.
Now I'm sure the debate will fire up about fixing the list to go to the originator rather than the whole list. To tell you the truth, that'd be fine with me, but KRnet traffic would drop down to about 5 messages a day, mostly from those smart enough to cut and paste the list in place of the originator's address. And a lot of good information that would be helpful to others would stay private. The downside of the way it is now is that we suffer through a whole bunch of emails that concern only one guy, but maybe there's some hope of training these people. Again, I'll repeat something I said just yesterday: >>If anybody had actually read the rules at http://www.krnet.org/info.html , >>they'd have noticed that stuff like private transactions where one guy is >>buying something from another guy (therefore not involving the other 650 >>members of the KRnet mailing list) are a great example of traffic that should >>go offline... that's a private matter from one guy to another, not something >>that needs to end up in the mailboxes of 650 other people.<< Mark Langford, Huntsville, Alabama see KR2S project N56ML at http://home.hiwaay.net/~langford email to N56ML "at" hiwaay.net --------------------------------------------------------------
