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This is the standard: all recipients listed will be served. To avoid this would mean an extra routine which checks the list. And some might want to self send an email. It's a convenient way to write a reminder. Plus that such plausibility checks increase the error probability and tend to grow like a cancer over the years.WWGD said:Feel like pounding someone when I use email setup in such a way that unless one is very careful, one may self-send an email. Who designed this?
But I never include myself as a recipient. And the only one who ends up as a recipient is myself. This is what I have trouble with; not that I am a recipient but that none of the other 'non-me' original recipients are included in the reply.fresh_42 said:This is the standard: all recipients listed will be served. To avoid this would mean an extra routine which checks the list. And some might want to self send an email. It's a convenient way to write a reminder. Plus that such plausibility checks increase the error probability and tend to grow like a cancer over the years.
WWGD said:Feel like pounding someone when I use email setup in such a way that unless one is very careful, one may self-send an email. Who designed this?
Thank you. I think I phrased things confusingly: I am the only recipient of the reply despite not including myself as a recipient., none of the recipients of the original is a default recipient for the reply. Yes, I will have to check the settings, but these seem to be default settings since I don't remember choosing them at any point.Klystron said:Perhaps your email handler program on your device(s) or your email subscription service (gmail, hotmail, etc.) has a configurable switch (option) to inhibit automatic self-send.
My email config: While I compose an email a copy appears in a draft sub-folder. When sent, the copy moves to sent sub-folder. Unless I explicitly place my email address in one of the To: Cc: blocks, I do not receive another copy. Best guess: see if the backup copy Bcc: includes your address.
Are you using the "Reply" command or the "Reply All" command? "Reply" shouldn't go to any of the original recipients, it should go to the original sender.WWGD said:Thank you. I think I phrased things confusingly: I am the only recipient of the reply despite not including myself as a recipient., none of the recipients of the original is a default recipient for the reply. Yes, I will have to check the settings, but these seem to be default settings since I don't remember choosing them at any point.
Yes, why choose a cat ? Maybe cat is in the right Cat[] (category, or cat-egory)?Klystron said:If one could jump back in time; I would first learn colloquial German, jump back to 19xx, and warn Erwin Schrödinger
"Dude, no animal examples in physics. No cats or bats, no mice or lice." .
In Britain we've seen so many American films and TV programmes that we can (usually) cope with American accents without any problem.fresh_42 said:She didn't even raised her eyebrow as I - what I realized later - answered in my American colored English and said "eather" instead of "ither", not to mention the melody of my sentences.
Eather instead of ither. Did you also say poteito or potato? Tomeito/Tomato? But, by your own account , you did not call the whole thing off, it seems.fresh_42 said:PF is cool!
I started a small talk with a lady in front of me at the grocery store as she tried to help me putting things on the belt. She seemingly didn't understand me or whatever, but she replied in English. Thanks PF, I had not the least difficulty to instantaneously switch language. And British are so polite! She didn't even raised her eyebrow as I - what I realized later - answered in my American colored English and said "eather" instead of "ither", not to mention the melody of my sentences.
I've forgotten to buy tomatoes and she wasn't interested in my potatoes.WWGD said:Eather instead of ither. Did you also say poteito or potato? Tomeito/Tomato? But, by your own account , you did not call the whole thing off, it seems.
Much more importantly than any UK/US divide, how do you pronounce grass? With a short a like acid or long a like arsenic?fresh_42 said:And She didn't even raised her eyebrow as I - what I realized later - answered in my American colored English and said "eather" instead of "ither", not to mention the melody of my sentences.
Just say Fahvernugen (most likely wrongly written) next time.Or act out the Sprockets theme from SNL, with the hand movements and dance.fresh_42 said:PF is cool!
I started a small talk with a lady in front of me at the grocery store as she tried to help me putting things on the belt. She seemingly didn't understand me or whatever, but she replied in English. Thanks PF, I had not the least difficulty to instantaneously switch language. And British are so polite! She didn't even raised her eyebrow as I - what I realized later - answered in my American colored English and said "eather" instead of "ither", not to mention the melody of my sentences.
I had difficulty in the past understanding British regional accents and colloquial expressions, then in late 1980's PBS station KTEH began daily broadcasts of East Enders. I would tape 5 segments a week* and binge-watch on the weekends with friends.DrGreg said:In Britain we've seen so many American films and TV programmes that we can (usually) cope with American accents without any problem.
My sister is a hard core Elvis fan, so I grew up withIbix said:Much more importantly than any UK/US divide, how do you pronounce grass? With a short a like acid or long a like arsenic?
fresh_42 said:My sister is a hard core Elvis fan, so I grew up with
But to be honest, I cannot really figure out the difference to
And, yes I know he's not English.
Guess this should mean joy ride (Fahrvergnügen - close enough!). Thank god I didn't mention anything like this. She has been on a greenish mission ...WWGD said:Just say Fahvernugen ...
Then try the Sprockets thing. Don't Germans do so anyway, like, daily?fresh_42 said:Guess this should mean joy ride (Fahrvergnügen - close enough!). Thank god I didn't mention anything like this. She has been on a greenish mission ...
Short 'a' pronounced like gas.Ibix said:Much more importantly than any UK/US divide, how do you pronounce grass? With a short a like acid or long a like arsenic?
Your Grr +ass has two arse...Klystron said:Short 'a' pronounced like gas.
Mnemonic: the growling dog bit me on my ...backside... Grrr + ass. Oh, wait; that's arse in British slang.
WWGD said:Then try the Sprockets thing. Don't Germans do so anyway, like, daily?
fresh_42 said:Nope. We do this (at 2:25):
This was a short (7 episodes) low budget sci-fi series in '66 (Space Patrol Orion); very low budget. They did everything to appear futuristic. The setup of the bridge e.g. included an iron as steering instrument and so on. It's meanwhile a cult and some cinemas (or tv) occasionally show all episodes in one night. But the theme is o.k.:WWGD said:Drunk Penguin Danzert?
fresh_42 said:This was a short (7 episodes) low budget sci-fi series in '66 (Space Patrol Orion); very low budget. They did everything to appear futuristic. The setup of the bridge e.g. included an iron as steering instrument and so on. It's meanwhile a cult and some cinemas (or tv) occasionally show all episodes in one night. But the theme is o.k.: