"Reply to All" issues

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Terry

On ocassion we send a company wide E-Mail, aprox 3,000
employees. The question is, how can we set up Outlook XP
to not allow persons to "Reply to All"? This is causing
certain employees to send their replies to 3,000 other
employees, and so on and so on. Does anyone have any
sugustions.
 
Maybe set the company-wide names up in a distribution list, then restrict
access to the DL through group policies?
 
Prohibit the use of the address by others on the properties of the list in
Active Directory Users and Computers

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you can't use group policies to restrict access to a distributionlist.

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Tell the sender to BCC everyone. This is a nice paper budget courtesy
anyway for those maniacs who PRINT all their e-mails and put them in a
filing cabinet and then delete the e-mail. (This I will never understand.)

Ray at work
 
Send a memo to all saying that the next person who replies to all 3,000
employees gets fired. <grin>

"There are seldom good technological solutions to behavioral problems."
-Ed-

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In an internal Exchange environment the distributionlist is not expanded.
But this is still a good idea anyway. I think a combination of BCC'íng and
restricting the use of the distributionlist would be the answer to this.

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Yep, tried that one before with; do not store more than 50MB in your mailbox
and 100MB on your Home directory. But the minute I reported someone from the
Directory Board I had to fear for my job instead of the other way around :-D
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Create a custom message form to use by following these steps:

Create a new message.
Select the TOOLS menu
Select FORMS
Select DESIGN THIS FORM to put the message into design
view.
Select the ACTIONS tab.
Double-click the REPLY TO ALL action to display the
Form Action Properties dialog box.
Clear the Enabled check box, then click OK.
Select TOOLS from the menu again
Select FORMS
Select PUBLISH FORM
Publish the form to the Organization Forms Library or
Save it as a template and place it where everyone who
will use it can access it. You can also publish it to
individuals inbox's and such.
Mandate that messages sent to ALL must use this form.

See Sue Mosher's site for more information on form publishing:
http://www.slipstick.com/dev/formpub.htm
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Nikki Peterson [MVP - Outlook]

On ocassion we send a company wide E-Mail, aprox 3,000
employees. The question is, how can we set up Outlook XP
to not allow persons to "Reply to All"? This is causing
certain employees to send their replies to 3,000 other
employees, and so on and so on. Does anyone have any
sugustions.
 
Ray at said:
Tell the sender to BCC everyone. This is a nice paper budget courtesy
anyway for those maniacs who PRINT all their e-mails and put them in a
filing cabinet and then delete the e-mail. (This I will never
understand.)
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No, I've never understood the mentality behind that one, either......
Perhaps if anyone who practices that posts here, they could explain the
thinking behind it, if there is any....
 
No, I've never understood the mentality behind that one, either......
Perhaps if anyone who practices that posts here, they could explain the
thinking behind it, if there is any....
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It is common practice at many places to do this so that if 500 people print
the e-mail, it will take 500 pages to do so, as opposed to 2500, 500 for the
message, and another 2000 for the four pages of To: info.

Ray at work
 
We use BCC all the time for messages sent to a large group of people. Also
for messages sent where we don't want people to be able to see the e-mail
addreses of the other recipients - to protect their privacy.

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Aloha,

-Ben-
Ben M. Schorr, OneNote-MVP
http://home.hawaii.rr.com/schorr
Microsoft OneNote FAQ:
http://home.hawaii.rr.com/schorr/Computers/OneNoteFAQ.htm

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