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Re: New newsgroups for product line years
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Mon, 23 Oct 2000 17:37:38 GMT
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On Mon, Oct 23, 2000 at 04:34:14PM +0000, Steve Bliss wrote:
> In lugnet.admin.nntp, Todd Lehman wrote:
> 
> > As information about the upcoming 2001 product line becomes available, please
> > feel free to crosspost between lugnet.year.2001 and other relevant areas, for
> > example lugnet.starwars and lugnet.year.2001 if the discussions are relevant
> > to both Star Wars and to the year-2001 product line.
> 
> When cross-posting, is there any preference on whether to direct
> followup-to into or out-of the .year hierarchy?
> 
> I'd say if a message should be cross-posted with .year.* and .elsewhere,
> the followup-to should go into .year.*.  Generally speaking, of course.
> There are always exceptions.

hmmm....  I wonder if we could set up the year* groups to automagically take
any post about sets of those years....  so any post about 8880 would be copied
to year.1994... that way, the year.* would have more than just new sets talk...

:)

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  Re: New newsgroups for product line years
 
(...) talk... (...) That'd be great!! Bit tricky to tell a pooter exactly what "about 8880" means though 8?( Todd? ROSCO (26 years ago, 27-Oct-00, to lugnet.admin.nntp)

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(...) When cross-posting, is there any preference on whether to direct followup-to into or out-of the .year hierarchy? I'd say if a message should be cross-posted with .year.* and .elsewhere, the followup-to should go into .year.*. Generally (...) (26 years ago, 23-Oct-00, to lugnet.admin.nntp)

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