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Re: what is this folow up thingy?
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lugnet.admin.general
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Tue, 20 Oct 1998 15:01:37 GMT
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Is it corresponding to the "carbon copy" field in outlook express?
Selçuk
Todd Lehman wrote in message <362c73e7.1269148@lugnet.com>...
> "Selçuk GÖRE <teyyareci>" <sgore@SPAMsuperonline.com> writes:
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> > Hi
> >
> > When I first try to reply to a message in lugnet.announce, an error • showed
> > up saying "...blah blah must follow-up to another group"
> >
> > I searched the help of outlook express for this but has no clue about
> > "following-up"
> >
> > Could anyone help?
> >
> > Selçuk
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>
> "Posts to lugnet.announce must follow-up to another group."
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> This means that the Followup-To: header field was not set. Followup-To
> gives a list of newsgroups just like the Newsgroups: header field, except
> Followup-To groups are stored for later, when someone replies.
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> That is to say, if you post a message like this:
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> Newsgroups: a,b,c
> Followup-To: a
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> Then that message is simultaneously "crossposted" to groups a, b, and c, • but
> when someone replied to that message ("follows it up"), their message will
> be posted by default just to group a and not to a, b, and c.
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> The reasons for requiring the Followup-To field for messages posted to
> lugnet.announce are:
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> 1. Direct discussions away from lugnet.announce since it is not a
> discussion group but rather an announcement group.
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> 2. Make it more difficult for people to post messages there, because
> people were posting a lot of fluff there before.
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> For more info, please read the announcement from last week about the
> Followup-To header in lugnet.announce...
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> http://www.lugnet.com/news/display.cgi?lugnet.announce:80
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> ...and these threads in lugnet.admin.general:
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> http://www.lugnet.com/news/display.cgi?lugnet.admin.general:68
> http://www.lugnet.com/news/display.cgi?lugnet.admin.general:252
> http://www.lugnet.com/news/display.cgi?lugnet.admin.general:315
> http://www.lugnet.com/news/display.cgi?lugnet.admin.general:329
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> --Todd
>
>
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Message has 1 Reply:
 | | Re: what is this folow up thingy?
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| No -- carbon copies are e-mail directives. Followup-To is a NNTP header field. Followup-To specifies what newsgroup an article will go in when someone posts a followup to it. If you post message A in group X, and the Followup-To field of A is set (...) (28 years ago, 20-Oct-98, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: what is this folow up thingy?
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| (...) "Posts to lugnet.announce must follow-up to another group." This means that the Followup-To: header field was not set. Followup-To gives a list of newsgroups just like the Newsgroups: header field, except Followup-To groups are stored for (...) (28 years ago, 20-Oct-98, to lugnet.admin.general)
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