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(...) Than a trashbin? Well, quite a bit different I would hope, at least the participants would like to think so. What are you trying to say here? (...) I'm net savvy and I forget somewhere between 10 and 25 percent of the time. Setting followups (...) (24 years ago, 25-Jul-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Undo. :) I was thinking of all the times on Usenet that I'd seen "followups to alt.dev.null" or "followups to /dev/null" used when someone made a flame or quip or other flippant statement and wanted to deflect replies to avoid a big debate or (...) (24 years ago, 25-Jul-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) I'm trying to set followups on this one to junk. I don't think Netscape will let me post it though... Nope, didn't work. (...) Ok, let's try "poster" (...) (24 years ago, 25-Jul-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Ok, that worked. That would keep people from replying using the web interface (from Netscape, it brings up a compose window, and then I need to manually show the newsgroups field and clear the e-mail). (24 years ago, 25-Jul-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Yeah, already tried that. I think it's actually the server rejecting the post. (...) Works, but slrn (at least) gives me the choice of ignoring your preference. ("Send me replies directly" is often considered tacky. There's situations where (...) (24 years ago, 25-Jul-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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