> It seems to me that up until today I was able to reply a group message
> without having to check that the address was to the group and not the
> individual. But today I had a short conversation (which I thought was
> public) with Peter Crow complimenting his recent build photos and it
> turned out that I was talking to him privately. I'm not adverse to that
> at all but my intention of public praise was foiled.

> So it looks like you have to (in Outlook) "Reply to all" but remove the
> author address. That should leave just the group address.

> tim

> On 1/15/06, Tim McCarthy <tfmccar...@verizon.net> wrote:
> > or "What I learned Today."

> > It seems to me that up until today I was able to reply a group message
> > without having to check that the address was to the group and not the
> > individual. But today I had a short conversation (which I thought was
> > public) with Peter Crow complimenting his recent build photos and it
> > turned out that I was talking to him privately. I'm not adverse to that
> > at all but my intention of public praise was foiled.

> > So it looks like you have to (in Outlook) "Reply to all" but remove the
> > author address. That should leave just the group address.

> > tim

> Thanks, Tim; that's good to know. I just saw that I had to do the same
> in Gmail to reply to your post to the group.

> Tim, et al.,

> I changed a setting; by default, replies now go to the group. If you
> reply via the Google Groups Web interface, you can click on the
> "Options" link and still select "Reply to Author." If replying via
> e-mail, you can copy and paste the e-mail address to reply to the
> author.