[AT] OT confused by new list format.

[charlie hill]

Ok,  I guess I just need to pay more attention.  It seems for the life of me 
that something is different and keeps me confused but looking back at some 
old mail in my other computer I see that it is not.

I guess I just need to make a mail box for list mail and that will solve the 
problem.  Sorry for bothering you.

Charlie
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Spencer Yost" <yostsw at atis.net>
To: <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Wednesday, September 22, 2004 8:16 PM
Subject: Re: [AT] OT confused by new list format.


> >Spencer is there an easy way for you to address this?  I don't want you 
> >to
>
>>go out of your way.  You do enough as it is.  I'll get used to it
>
> The "To:" line on the message should tell the tale.   In mail from list
> members directly to you, the "To:" line will have your address.   In list
> mail, the "To:" line will have the list address even though it was
> delivered to you.
>
> The old list worked this same exact way too, except the old list didn't
> have the [AT] tag that tends to confuse people.  Most people have their
> email look for that tag for filtering purposes (ie a message comes in with
> the [AT] tag, it puts the message in a special folder) .   Some people
> (like me occasionally ) forget to take that tag off the subject line when
> they directly reply to the sender.  Now the original author receives a
> reply from a list member that looks and smells just like a list message
> insofar as the email package is concerned because it still has the [AT] 
> tag
> in the subject line.  So it gets put into the "Antique-tractor List" 
> folder
> (or whatever folder) with the regular list messages.   You can only tell 
> it
> isn't list mail unless you look at the "To:" line or deeper in the 
> headers.
>
>
> There is no way around this unless the sender who is replying to you 
> strips
> out the [AT] tag before replying or folks set up their email to filter on
> the "To:" using "at at lists.antique-tractor.com" as the pattern instead of
> filtering on the subject line using the [AT] tag as the pattern.
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> Spencer Yost
> Owner, ATIS
> Plow the Net!
> http://www.atis.net
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