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From: tarvaine@tukki.jyu.fi (Tapani Tarvainen)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: Re: cross posting
Summary: use Followup-to
Message-ID: <1171@tukki.jyu.fi>
Date: 21 Aug 89 12:16:30 GMT
References: <2989@blake.acs.washington.edu> <1989Jul28.223042.4488@twwells.com> <6554@bunker.UUCP> <1055@clyde.Concordia.CA> <424@nixpbe.UUCP> <1202@abaa.UUCP> <880@aoa.UUCP>
Reply-To: tarvaine@tukki.jyu.fi (Tapani Tarvainen)
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In article <880@aoa.UUCP> carl@aoa (Carl Witthoft) writes:

>[...] NO-ONE EVER looks at the post
>list when following up, so that followups go all over the newsgroups
>forever and ever.

I would recommend that whenever you cross post, for whatever reason,
ALWAYS put one, exactly one, of the groups to the Followup-to line.

>  Personnaly, I'd vote
>for a mod to rn which makes the default Followup-to line contain
>ONLY the group  presently being read, so that it takes active
>effort to inundate all the other groups with responses.

But then the discussion would be scattered around (depending on
the order in which each reads the groups).  How about using the
first of the groups listed?
-- 
Tapani Tarvainen    (tarvaine@tukki.jyu.fi, tarvainen@finjyu.bitnet)