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Re: Green Wizard/Witch Hat - what set?
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lugnet.general
Date: 
Fri, 6 Aug 1999 03:42:20 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Bryce McGlone writes:
> In lugnet.general, Todd Lehman writes: • <snip>
> > The "Followup-To:" field is optional and defaults to whatever is in the
> > "Newsgroups:" field if it's omitted.
> > 
> > As Tom McD already pointed out, you probably don't need to take this
> > discussion to another group just yet -- not unless it starts wandering into
> > buy-sell-trade territory:
> > 
> >   "Now, if you wanted to say, 'I have (or want) a green witch hat,
> >    does anyone want to trade with me?' then you should post to the
> >    lugnet.buy-sell-trade group."
> > 
> > lugnet.general is a general place for discussing things, but not for
> > discussing or arranging person-to-person trades (that's what .buy-sell-trade
> > is for).
> > 
> > --Todd
> Thank you both (Todd and Tom).  I didn't mean to step on any toes.  I'll use
> the "Followup-To" method in the future.  Bryce McGlone

No problem Bryce. I didn't think you were out to smash toes, as your tone
didn't intimate that. I didn't know about the follow-up thing at first either.
But it sure is a darn handy thing. :-)

-Tom McD.
when replying, por favor, no comeis el spamtort.



Message has 2 Replies:
  Re: Green Wizard/Witch Hat - what set?
 
(...) Tom you are my hero for the day. You sound like quite a fellow. If you ever want to trade...oh wait that's how we got here in the first place. Well I have to go finish reading the "Help keep Lugnet clean" saga...very interesting reading. Bryce (...) (27 years ago, 6-Aug-99, to lugnet.general)
  Using Followup-To (was Re: Green Wizard/Witch Hat - what set?)
 
(...) Yes, and I wish people would use it more often, when cross-posting to a large number of groups. My guess is that more people are moving to the web-interface, which handles cross-posted messages. Unfortunately, my newsreader doesn't[1], so I (...) (27 years ago, 6-Aug-99, to lugnet.general)

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  Re: Green Wizard/Witch Hat - what set?
 
(...) Thank you both (Todd and Tom). I didn't mean to step on any toes. I'll use the "Followup-To" method in the future. Bryce McGlone (27 years ago, 6-Aug-99, to lugnet.general)

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