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From: julian@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu (Julian Cowley)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: Re: All these title lines!
Keywords: perplexed
Message-ID: <4507@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu>
Date: 4 Aug 89 23:38:33 GMT
References: <14733@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> <321@vector.Dallas.TX.US>
Organization: University of Hawaii at Manoa
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In article <321@vector.Dallas.TX.US> chip@vector.Dallas.TX.US (Chip Rosenthal)
writes:
[disussing the use of the keyword "poster" in the Followup-To header line]
>Older software won't recognize the meaning of "poster" but will
>instead try to post to a newsgroup called "poster".  Since there
>is no such thing, the posting will fail with an error message,
>which is the same net result.

Which software does this?  I've done tests using rn and
determined that it doesn't know how to handle the poster
keyword.

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