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Paul Wiener PMMAIL Discussion List <PMMAIL-L@vm.ege.edu.tr>
Mon, 5 Apr 1999 16:47:26 -0700


On Mon, 5 Apr 1999 16:42:27 -0700, dodger wrote:

>>I am not sure that you are correct. Crossposting can be inhibited by
>>the fact that you have to be subscriber to be able to post to a list.
>>Many lists have this restriction. In addition, if you hit reply to for
>>this list for instance you will only reply to the list or the sender. I
>>think most people use this and rarely reply to all.
>
>You must be from a different part of the Internet than I am.  Over-usage
>of Reply To All is a real problem, in my experience.

Yes, that's a problem, but not necessarily relevant to Subba Rao's. There can
be reply-complications from xposting to mailing lists even the responder doesn't
use reply to all.

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