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From: chip@vector.Dallas.TX.US (Chip Rosenthal)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: Re: All these title lines!
Keywords: perplexed
Message-ID: <671@vector.Dallas.TX.US>
Date: 8 Aug 89 01:06:54 GMT
References: <14733@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> <321@vector.Dallas.TX.US> <4507@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu>
Reply-To: chip@vector.Dallas.TX.US (Chip Rosenthal)
Organization: Dallas Semiconductor
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julian@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu (Julian Cowley) writes:
>In article <321@vector.Dallas.TX.US> I wrote:
>[about using the "Followup-To: poster" magic cookie]
>
>Which software does this?  I've done tests using rn and determined that it
>doesn't know how to handle the poster keyword.

Sorry to mislead you.  It is up to the various news reading/posting
programs to see that the message has a "Followup-To: poster" header, and
request you to submit your response via mail rather than a followup.

The standard USENET programs do this.  The "readnews" program will
automagically route your response via mail rather than posting.  The
"postnews" program will refuse to post the followup.  However, "rn" doesn't
recognize this.

However, as I mentioned, what happens in this case is that your program
trys to post the message to a newsgroup named "poster", and as you probably
say, this fails with an error message saying that there is no newsgroup
called "poster".

I went back to the "rn" source and added this capability.  The following
patch will change "rn" to prohibit the "f" and "F" commands if the message
has a "Followup-To: poster" header.

Index: respond.c
*** respond.c.OLD	Mon Apr 11 15:56:31 1988
--- respond.c	Sat Aug  5 03:27:44 1989
***************
*** 1,5 ****
--- 1,8 ----
  /* $Header: respond.c,v 4.3.1.5 85/09/10 11:05:00 lwall Exp $
   *
+  * Sat Aug  5 03:24:20 1989 - Chip Rosenthal <chip@vector.Dallas.TX.US>
+  *	Changed "followup()" to refuse when "Followup-to" is poster.
+  *
   * $Log:	respond.c,v $
   * Revision 4.3.1.5  85/09/10  11:05:00  lwall
   * Improved %m in in_char().
***************
*** 355,360 ****
--- 358,370 ----
  {
      bool incl_body = (*buf == 'F');
  
+     if (htype[FOLLOW_LINE].ht_minpos >= 0 ) {
+ 	if ( strcmp(fetchlines(art,FOLLOW_LINE),"poster") == 0 ) {
+ 	    puts("\nSorry - poster has asked for replies to be mailed.");
+ 	    FLUSH;
+ 	    return;
+ 	}
+     }
      artopen(art);
      tmpfp = fopen(headname,"w");
      if (tmpfp == Nullfp) {

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Chip Rosenthal / chip@vector.Dallas.TX.US / Dallas Semiconductor / 214-450-5337
"I wish you'd put that starvation box down and go to bed" - Albert Collins' Mom