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In lugnet.off-topic.test, Larry Pieniazek writes:
> > Also, what is FUT?
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> FollowUpTo
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> 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.
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> So far so good.
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> 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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| (...) 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 (...) (23 years ago, 7-Feb-01, to lugnet.off-topic.test)
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