Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!usc!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!crdgw1!crdgw1.ge.com!barnett From: barnett@crdgw1.crd.ge.com (Bruce Barnett) Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions Subject: Re: All these title lines! Summary: Modify Newsgroups, FOllowup-To: and Reply-to: Keywords: perplexed Message-ID: <1408@crdgw1.crd.ge.com> Date: 31 Jul 89 15:22:06 GMT References: <14733@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> Sender: news@crdgw1.crd.ge.com Reply-To: barnett@crdgw1.crd.ge.com (Bruce Barnett) Organization: GE Corp. R & D, Schenectady, NY Lines: 42 In-reply-to: jarvis@northstar.dartmouth.edu (Mark (Ninjabutler) Robinson) In article <14733@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU>, jarvis@northstar (Mark (Ninjabutler) Robinson) writes: >How can I fill in the empty titles 'Expires:', 'References:', 'Sender:', and >'Followup-To:', above, when I am posting to the net? Are they really >important? The only headers a novice should edit (IHMO (In My Humble Opinion)) are: Newsgroups: - Remove all inappropriate newsgroups Follow-Up: - A reply will go to this (these) newsgroups Summary: - A one-line summary of the article Keywords: - Some important keywords in your article Reply-To: - This is your preferred address Newsgroups: and Followup-to: limits the number of newsgroups you post to. Please keep this down to the fewest number of newsgroups possible. Some news archivers prefer the first newsgroup in the list to be the most appropriate one. Summary and Keywords are used by some readers that use it to determine if reading the rest of the article is a good idea. When at home using a 1200 baud modem, this is important. Reply-To: You may want to put your REAL return address here provided you know what your real address is. (Don't guess!) If your News reader is not set up properly, then you may have to edit this field. When someone replies to you, the first choice is the Reply-To: field. Next choice is the From: field, and next choice is the Sender: field. If you want mail to be delivered to a particular machine, specify it there. Some people have set up their news reader to use the return path. I only use this as a last resort, but we have a UUCP router and a name server. The syntax to Expires: is subtle, and you will very likely get it wrong it you guess. When the news admin runs expire to remove old articles, it complains about bad dates in hand-generated Expires: field. -- Bruce G. Barnett a.k.a. uunet!crdgw1.ge.com!barnett barnett@crdgw1.UUCP