Thank-you, I’m checking that out, ‘um, I need to find the Free Republic Mail, I haven’t been anywhere yet except this thread and one other thread.
I have read the Free Republic Mail, but it tells me I can’t reply to any of it yet, I only joined yesterday.
So don’t think me bad-mannered, it’s out of my control.
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You must have clicked, Post Article in order to have started this thread. Since you say you havent found Mail before, and since I know I sent you a FReepmail, as its often called here, I presume that you will notice that Mail is not blue but red, signifying the existence of mail to you which you have not seen. If you click on that, youll see where you can read my mail to you. The message I sent you will of course look a lot like gibberish, since it is a list of screen names each followed by a semicolon.
Any REPLY addressed to you (such as this one) will cause the Pings label I alluded to above to be red rather than blue. It was because my Pings label was red that I knew to click on it, and upon doing so learned that you had replied to me.
Thus, if you should choose to respond to all the people who posted on your thread (up to the time I composed the list) you can paste the contents of my mail into the To: box on the Reply page. [Note that by default you will be replying to some screen name or other, perhaps mine, as well as those in my list. Either delete that one, or follow it by a semicolon (as instructed above the To: box) before you click Post - or you will get a complaint that the first addressee name in your list is invalid].
The entire point of the list of addressees is that everyone whose screen name is listed be alerted to the fact that you have addressed them. That happens by the fact that their Pings header turns red.