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Subject: replies to list
Date: Sun, 22 Aug 2004 04:16:21 +0000


Some of you may recall that when the Piatt list was new the reply button was set to send the reply back to the list for everyone to see. This was great as it kept discussions on-list for everyone to read and for the benefit of future researchers who would find the information by searching the list archives.

Other lists I have been on are absolutely worthless because their reply buttons from the beginning were set to send the reply to the poster and not to the list. Consequently, the list archives are empty of useful information and, therefore, worthless. Yes, the question about great-great-great-grandfather's capture by the natives and possible redemption 12 years later may appear in the list archives, but the answer? Nowhere!

So, I wonder if I could persuade our list administrator to reset the reply button to reply to the list automatically. What are the feelings of other posters about this? In the meantime we can be sure that our posted information gets back to the list as well as to the poster by hitting the "reply to all" button in our browsers.

Thanks.
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Laverne Ingram Piatt
Ontario, OH



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