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Re: Strategy/algorithm for Followup-To field in non-discussion groups
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lugnet.admin.general
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Mon, 12 Oct 1998 21:10:13 GMT
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mattdm@mattdm.org (Matthew Miller) writes:
> Todd Lehman <lehman@javanet.com> wrote:
> > > Q: should messages be required to be crossposted to the group to which
> > > Followup-To is set? That way, people who don't subscribe to the announce
> > > group but do subscribe to the relevant discussion area will see the original
> > > message.
> > Aha, good, yes, probably, hmm...
>
> Of course, this isn't a good idea for something like the .dat group being
> discussed for the cad folks.
LOL -- I was just popping back into this group having just realized the
same...sure would suck if all the .DAT files were crossposted! :)
> I haven't looked into this, but can you customize the error message returned
> when a posting fails? That seems important if non-standard behavior like
> this is implemented.
Yes, it's just a message to STDERR... The rejection messages for HTML
postings versus (for example) binary postings are currently different.
> An alternative to rejecting posts which don't have the Followup-To group in
> the Newsgroups line is to add it automatically. This is more transparent,
> which is generally good, but has the side-effect of putting posts somewhere
> other than what the author specified, which could be confusing. (Although,
> since they did choose the followup group, that might not be much of a
> problem .)
I wonder if that also has the side-effect of making it too easy to post to
the announce group. :)
Well, all in all, I think what I'd be happiest with is: articles posted to
lugnet.cad.dat automatically following up to lugnet.cad (by default), and
articles posted to lugnet.announce automatically following up to
lugnet.general (by default), but with lugnet.announce being moderated.
I don't think anyone believes that moderating the announce group would be a
bad idea...just...still...a tiny bit hesitant...
I need to read up on moderated groups a bit more. I think it's already set
up so that moderated messages get mailed out fine. I'm unsure about how
they finally get injected -- how they get back to the newsserver from the
mailer.
--Todd
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