*** Do not ignore Bob's poll

[Roy Williams]

Please do not ignore the message from Bob Hanisch.  Please respond to 
him saying that you want the list behavior to be changed so that 
ordinary human beings (like you!) will not be embarrassed.

Currently the lists are set up so that when you reply to the person who 
sent the message, YOUR PRIVATE MESSAGE GOES TO 100 PEOPLE!

The problem is that the "From" field and the "Reply-To" field are 
different. The normal behavior is to assume that when you Reply it goes 
to the person who sent the message. WRONG. It goes to the whole list!

We all know to be careful sending messages to a lot of people. Bob and 
Francoise have all been embarrassed this way, and we are simply trying 
to put in an additional safeguard, to make it a little more unlikely 
for a private message to be sent to 100 people.

Of course, if you really want to send to the group, you simply click 
REPLY-ALL instead of REPLY.

So, do not think that this is something you can ignore and it'll all 
work out sensibly - if you do not repond then the list behaviour will 
continue to be a big RISK OF PERSONAL EMBARRASSMENT for all of us in 
the IVOA.

Thank you for your vote
Roy


California Institute of Technology
626 395 3670
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