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From: alan <>
Subject: Re: Missing out on returning replies
Date: Sat, 01 Jun 2002 14:23:51 +0100
In-Reply-To: <200206011142.g51BgTe31137@mail022.syd.optusnet.com.au>


Sound! . . . . . (as a pound?), but experience may indicate that this
proposal will need to be underpinned by additional measures. If the "[DEV]"
is omitted from many more messages than those which include them, it might
be considered whether to make it necessary to obtain a reply. After all, it
might not always be apparent to senders that the relevant recipients
receive mail from more than one list. However, ultimately, it is a
"multi-list" receiver's problem!

Alan England
York, UK.
________________________________________

At 21:42 01/06/02 +1000, you wrote:
>I agree with Terry's suggestion too (after discussing it with him
>off-list,too!).
>
>Putting [DEV] at the start of each message in our inboxes, would help
>those of us
>who receive mail from several lists, to know straight off which list the
>message is
>from.
>
>Any chance of this being done, listowners?? Many of us would be most
>appreciative.
>
>Judy Dickinson
>Sydney NSW Australia
>
>
>
> > <> wrote:
> >
> > Hi All
> > I've had so many replies on the subject that it's becoming
> > impossible to
> > answer them all. Seems we all are having the same problem. Consensus
> > seems to
> > be that if (DEV) was automatically added to the Subject the problem
> > would be
> > much reduced. Perhaps Brian Randall might consider setting this up.
> > I've never had so many replies to anything before. There is
> > still
> > another 30 odd messages sitting in my mail box, and perhaps more to
> > come, and
> > I've made nearly 100 replies. Perhaps the matter could come to a
> > conclusion.
> > Many thanks to all those who took the time to reply.
> >
> > Regards Terry Blackmore
> >
> >
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