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cshenk

wrote:

> On Sunday, August 18, 2019 at 9:39:27 AM UTC-5, cshenk wrote:
> >
> > wrote:
> >
> > > I guess, but it's mind boggling the number of people that don't
> > > know a Reply All goes to EVERYBODY on that e-mail. But I learned
> > > loooooong ago to send all group mailings as Blind Carbon Copy
> > > (Bcc). That puts the quietus on trivial Reply All's flying back
> > > and forth 6 dozen times.
> >
> > Joann, it depends on the software used for the LISTSERV. Some just
> > release in digest format. It's not the same as a contact group in
> > your email client. Thats not really the same thing at all.
> >
> The only listserv group I was on was a local one but I set it up as
> reading the replies at the group. I wanted no replies directly to my
> inbox or any notifications as I visited the group daily, sometimes 2
> or 3 times per day. I was glad that I could control what I received
> from that group as I wanted no digest coming directly to me.

Thats not a pure LISTSERV as a pure one has no web face to go to, to
read the messages. That was a web group with an adjunce email feature
(aka, Yahoo is like that as is NextDoor).