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Subject:Re: how many people can see this message? From:"Bonnie Granat" <bgranat -at- granatedit -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Mon, 7 Jun 2004 15:13:29 -0400
Chuck Martin wrote:
> John Fleming wrote:
>> On 4 Jun 2004 13:30:57 GMT, while chained to a desk in the
>> scriptorium, ad354 -at- FreeNet -dot- Carleton -dot- CA (James Owens) wrote:
>>
>>> $The talkative crowd who used to be here seem to have gone,
taking
>>> their $Robohelp ad with them, but bit.listserv.techwr-l is
still
>>> showing new $messages. Are there others who can see these
messages?
>>> Is there a $critical mass to keep this space alive and
useful?
>>
>>
>> I can see yours, but that is it.
>>
>> I usually follow this group as a lurker, following the group
as
>> mirrored in Usenet newsgroups, and posting volume seems to be
down.
>>
>
> For those who don't know, posts to TECHWR-L are also posted to
Usenet
> in
> the group bit.listserv.techwr-l. If you use this method to read
list
> messages, there is a caveat: if you read messages through a
newsreader
> and post a reply to that group, the message will not be sent to
the
> list.
>
> A better method, I think, is to use the news server at raycomm:
> lists.raycomm.com. You can read group messages with any
newsreader
> just
> as you would read the bit.listserv.techwr-l group, but the
difference
> is that if you post to the techwr-l group on list.raycomm.com,
the
> message
> will get send to the list.
>
But if you try to reply to a post that came from the newsgroup
(like yours, Chuck), it's addressed to the newsgroup (and thus
won't be distributed) and you can't change the To header in the
message so that the message goes to the mailing list (at least I
can't in Outlook Express), so you have to:
- Copy and paste your response into a new message.
- Address the message to techwr-l.
- Copy and paste the Subject of the message to which you are
replying
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