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From: ss@wivax.UUCP (Sid Shapiro)
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Subject: mail
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Date: Wed, 27-Jul-83 15:00:33 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jul 27 15:00:33 1983
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Organization: Wang Institute, Tyngsboro, Ma.
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We would like to conduct a poll on a minor point of the
user interface to the ucb/mail  program.

Scenario:

Mail is sent to a system-wide alias.  A person (hereafter
known as the "replier" uses the "r" command to reply to the
message.  

The header of the reply message contains a "To" field with
the name of the originator of the original message (the one
being replied to) and also the alias.  In other words - the
reply goes to the originator AND the all folks who got the
original message.

Question:  

Is that reasonable behavior?
Not from a system, or naive-user, or even experience-user
standpoint, but from a mail-system-design standpoint.

The results will be posted.  (And maybe the software changed!)

Thanks, folks
Sid Shapiro -- {decvax,linus}!wivax!ss -- Wang Institute
	       ss.Wang-Inst@UDel-Relay -- (617)649-9731
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Sid Shapiro -- {decvax,linus}!wivax!ss -- Wang Institute
	       ss.Wang-Inst@UDel-Relay -- (617)649-9731