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Re: Problems contacting me ?
Newsgroups: 
lugnet.off-topic.test, lugnet.admin.nntp
Followup-To: 
lugnet.admin.nntp
Date: 
Wed, 7 Feb 2001 04:29:18 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.test, Larry Pieniazek writes:
> > Also, what is FUT?
> 
> FollowUpTo
> 
> So to explain a bit better... we seem to have a current defacto system in
> which the initial "hey is X there" sort of posts (or in this case "I am X
> but I heard that no one can reach me") go to whatever group or groups that
> X, or in this case, those that want to reach X, seems to hang out in.
> 
> So far so good.
> 
> Where the system generates noise is in the followups. Those followups ought
> to go somewhere else. The inital posts ought to stay right where they seem
> to make the best sense to reach the desired target.

Hmm, I could put a sort of "what is this?" or "help" link beneath or next to
the Followup-To box on the posting page...might help educate people on what
the heck that funny-named field does, and have it go to /help/news/followup-to
with a description and a tiny bit of NNTP & Usenet history.  Whaddya think?

--Todd



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  Re: Problems contacting me ?
 
(...) Whoops, I was a bit too terse. What I am suggesting was that the followup posts go to off-topic.test, not the initial. (...) FollowUpTo So to explain a bit better... we seem to have a current defacto system in which the initial "hey is X (...) (26 years ago, 7-Feb-01, to lugnet.off-topic.test)

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