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Q: Follow-Up Tag
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Date: 
Wed, 30 Sep 1998 14:29:36 GMT
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Forgive my ignorance on these matters, but I have some questions about
how these newsgroups will work.

1) When a thread gets off-topic in a group, is it diverted to another
group where it would be on topic?
2) Is this what the Follow-Up To: tag is for?
3) Who redirects the thread?
4) Does this prevent the thread from growing in the original newsgroup?

Also,

6) What about cross-posting to the groups, what and how much is
appropriate?


--
Thomas Main
main@appstate.edu



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  Re: Q: Follow-Up Tag
 
(...) Not automatically. And depends on the thread. I would not think you should worry about a couple of off-topic posts that come up in the conversation in a group. BEcause trying to divert those would do more to distract from the conversation than (...) (26 years ago, 30-Sep-98, to lugnet.admin.general)

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