Hi, On 08/11/2014 21:55, Kipp McMichael wrote: >> Why do BX-orders go to the forum? > The PBS list sends emails out "on behalf of" the sender. > This seems proper enough, but it has a major drawback. > > The good reason for this "behalf of" setup is to make group conversation the default - > this is a public forum after all - so it's easy to see why the list is set this way initially. > Perhaps Mr. Pilling can inform us if this is a setting that could be changed Yes we can change it. Good suggestion. I belong to another mail list where the effect of reply is variable. I occasionally have spent a lot of time composing a reply for public reading and found it going to one (lucky) person. The people who argue for making the change Kipp suggests say that email programs have separate options "reply to sender", "reply to list". Mine does and I make use of it. Not everyone will have the choice or understand it. As ever if there's support for change we can change. To be clear, at the moment reply means reply to the list. The proposal is to change so that reply would reply to the individual sender of the message. To post to the list would require a conscious decision. -- David Pilling http://www.davidpilling.com/