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Re: Followups (Was: Re: The question in mind was...)
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Date: 
Sun, 21 Nov 1999 01:56:22 GMT
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How does one do this in when using Netscape Communicator as their news reader?


Richard Franks wrote:
> 
> Followups are your friend! Followups are best used to redirect a thread that
> doesn't really belong in a particular newsgroup, to another newsgroup. Eg:
> http://www.lugnet.com/announce/?n=376
> 
> Which is the Lugnet Membership announcements - it was sent to three newsgroups
> so that it had a wide audience, but followups were set to "lugnet.people" as
> that was the most appropriate place to discuss them.
> 
> So, no matter which newsgroup you are in when you read that announcement, if
> you reply to it then it "lugnet.people" will be put in the "Newsgroups" field
> instead of the group that you started in.
> 
> Richard
> 
> In lugnet.general, Shiri Dori writes:
> > Yes!
> > I remember!
> > It came by insight...
> > I wanted to ask, what are "Followup-To"'s, 'cause I have absolutely no idea
> > what they do...
> > OK. It's not *that* important. But I thought it was...

--

G. Crisp - gcrisp@mindspring.com



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(...) In my version of Communicator (4.6), there is a 'Group:' button with a down arrow next to the newsgroup name field. When I hit reply just then, there was another 'Group:' button next to the blank field below it. Clicking on this button gives (...) (27 years ago, 21-Nov-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.test)

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Followups are your friend! Followups are best used to redirect a thread that doesn't really belong in a particular newsgroup, to another newsgroup. Eg: (URL) is the Lugnet Membership announcements - it was sent to three newsgroups so that it had a (...) (27 years ago, 20-Nov-99, to lugnet.general)

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