[chirp_users] how does one reply

[Christian Schwarz]

Good Morning, thank you Milton and N4AOF for clearing that up for me.

Cheers,
Chris.

On May 16, 2014, at 7:04 AM, N4AOF <n4aof.tom at gmail.com> wrote:

> HOW you reply to a mailing list message depends slightly on what kind of 
> email system you are using.
> 
> With the vast majority of email client software and most webmail systems, 
> all you need to do is click on the REPLY button.  Most email systems will 
> automatically insert the correct mail list reply address, which is 
> chirp_users at intrepid.danplanet.com -- if your email system doesn't insert 
> the correct address, then most likely it will use the individual email 
> address of the person who sent the message you are replying to.  You can 
> easily check to see what address your email system put on the reply message. 
> If it put chirp_users at intrepid.danplanet.com as the TO address, you are 
> fine.  If it put some other address, you have a choice of how to fix the 
> problem:
> 1) You can delete the incorrect address then manually type or copy&paste the 
> correct address chirp_users at intrepid.danplanet.com into the TO address block
> or
> 2) You could try using REPLY ALL instead of just REPLY.  In this case the 
> email system _should_ insert both the mail list address _and_ the individual 
> address; then you just delete the individual address   (If REPLY ALL doesn't 
> work, you are back with just Option 1)
> 
> The other thing that most email systems will do when you click REPLY (or 
> REPLY ALL) is to automatically quote the entire message you are replying to. 
> It is always polite to trim any unnecessary text from the quoted text in 
> your reply.  This is especially important is you are subscribed to the mail 
> list in Digest mode -- NEVER quote an entire digest message in your reply! 
> If you are subscribed to receive individual messages, you should still 
> delete the extraneous header and footer lines that are automatically added 
> by the mail list and the email system; you should usually also delete any 
> lengthy portions of the original message that are not related to your reply. 
> For example, in this reply, I deleted header information such as the date of 
> your message and the repeated copy of the subject line, I deleted the footer 
> lines that tell the reader which mail list this message was posted to (the 
> mail list is going to add those footer lines back in, and there is no need 
> to have them twice); and I trimmed your introduction and signature, leaving 
> only the questions you asked, because this is what I was replying to.  Your 
> original message was short enough that I didn't really need to trim those 
> three lines, but I did that as part of the example of trimming the original 
> text to just the significant part for a reply.
> 
> Whether or not you will see your own message back from the list depends 
> entirely on your email system -- the list is definitely going to send you a 
> copy of your own message -- the vast majority of email client software and 
> most webmail systems will include that message in your inbox.  The one 
> significant exception to this behavior is GMAIL (which apparently is what 
> you are using).  Gmail automatically filters out all messages which it sees 
> as being FROM your own gmail address; therefore it will normally not let you 
> see your own message coming back from the mail list.
> 
> -----Original Message----- 
> Date: Thu, 15 May 2014 20:54:58 +0200
> From: Christian Schwarz <coffeeisallineed at gmail.com>
> 
> how does one reply to a email that was sent by the mailing-list? And does 
> one see one?s own replies once posted?
> 
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