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Re: Followups (Was: Re: The question in mind was...)
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lugnet.general
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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:
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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:
> http://www.lugnet.com/announce/?n=376
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> Richard
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> 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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