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Re: what is this folow up thingy?
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Date: 
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:

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


"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 later, when someone replies.

That is to say, if you post a message like this:

  Newsgroups: a,b,c
  Followup-To: a

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.

The reasons for requiring the Followup-To field for messages posted to
lugnet.announce are:

1.  Direct discussions away from lugnet.announce since it is not a
   discussion group but rather an announcement group.

2.  Make it more difficult for people to post messages there, because
   people were posting a lot of fluff there before.

For more info, please read the announcement from last week about the
Followup-To header in lugnet.announce...

  http://www.lugnet.com/news/display.cgi?lugnet.announce:80

...and these threads in lugnet.admin.general:

  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

--Todd





Message has 1 Reply:
  Re: what is this folow up thingy?
 
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 (...) (26 years ago, 20-Oct-98, to lugnet.admin.general)

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  Re: what is this folow up thingy?
 
(...) "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 (...) (26 years ago, 20-Oct-98, to lugnet.admin.general)

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