Replying to a Group Message
Ronnie Z
I am brand new to gmail and just sent out a group message with my new
email address and would like to make individual replies so every
recipient does not see everyone else's replies.
If you send a group message and get replies, how can you reply and
have the reply go to only to one responder without having all the
replies sent out? Do you have to start a new conversation?
Thanks,
Ronnie Z
Ryan Morehart
the message. If you choose Reply All, it sends to everyone that email
was addressed to (in addition to the sender). The conversation
organization of Gmail has no actual affect on the sending of mail.
Ryan
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Andrew Ingraham
> the message. If you choose Reply All, it sends to everyone that email
> was addressed to (in addition to the sender).
That is not necessarily correct. It depends a lot on what method you use to
send your reply (an email program? a web interface?), as well as the Group
you are talking about.
(By Group, I assume you are talking about a maillist like this one, and
other Google groups and Yahoo groups for example. If you just mean a
collection of individual email addresses, like the addresses of all your
relatives, then Ryan's reply above might be correct.)
From Gmail's web interface, or from an email 'client' program (such as
Outlook or Outlook Express) running on your PC:
- Clicking on Reply may send either to the individual or to the whole Group.
I have found that most groups and email lists (including this one) are
configured so that a simple Reply goes back to the whole Group. But a few
are not configured this way. So it depends.
- Clicking on Reply All tends to pick up most addresses in the From:, To:,
and Cc: header lines, which may include the Group's address. Sometimes,
however, it omits the sender's address (I think that is true if the message
contains a hidden "Reply-To:" line). It depends on exactly what was in the
header of the message to which you are replying.
Either way, always check the details about the message you are about to
send, to see what email address(es) it is going to. Most email programs,
including Gmail (on its web interface), let you add, delete, or change email
addresses before actually sending it.
So, for this Group, from either Outlook Express or from Gmail directly,
you cannot just send an individual reply using either the Reply or Reply All
choices! You need to manually remove the group's address and fill in the
sender's address. I think this is true of most mail Groups. Fortunately
copy-and-paste (ctrl-C and ctrl-V in MS-Windows) come in handy.
If you are replying to a message from a Group's own website (such as
http://groups.google.com/group/Gmail-Users for this group), the above may
not apply.
For this Google group, clicking on Reply goes to the whole Group. Clicking
on Reply to Author makes an individual reply that doesn't go to the whole
Group. And Forward lets you send it to any person of your choosing.
Andy
Ryan Morehart
all messages to the group, even just thanks, so that people who look
at the archives later know if the advice worked and is worth trying in
their own situation. :)
Ryan
On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 10:55 AM, Ronnie Z <ronni...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks, Ryan. That was not clear given how the conversation appears
> on the screen.