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From: ambar@mit-eddie.UUCP
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: Suggestion for automatic Followup-To:
Message-ID: <5409@eddie.MIT.EDU>
Date: Tue, 7-Apr-87 22:31:54 EST
Article-I.D.: eddie.5409
Posted: Tue Apr  7 22:31:54 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 11-Apr-87 03:16:06 EST
References: <207@cbstr1.att.com>
Reply-To: ambar@eddie.UUCP (Jean Marie Diaz)
Organization: Madhouse International Technologies
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In article <207@cbstr1.att.com> Karl.Kleinpaste@cbstr1.att.com writes:
>I suggest that postings which have more than one newsgroup specified
>be required to have a Followup-To: line.  If an article is composed
>with multiple newsgroups, the poster will have to add a Followup-To:
>of his own to specify the ONE group to which followups will go.  If
>the poster does not edit in such a line, inews will automatically
>insert such a line, using the first newsgroup requested as the
>intended followup group.

I think this is a good idea, EXCEPT for having inews automagically
insert the Followup-To line if none is inserted.  Instead, the article
should be "dropped" and put in dead.article, much like articles with
no Groups: line.

My rationale is this:  the writer should have to put in the line, so
that if they only subscribe to comp.foobar, and all the replies go to
comp.fuzzbar, they won't be left wondering what happened (or worse
yet, reposting....)
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