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From: allbery@ncoast.UUCP
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Suggestion for automatic Followup-To:
Message-ID: <2336@ncoast.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 9-Apr-87 00:47:57 EST
Article-I.D.: ncoast.2336
Posted: Thu Apr  9 00:47:57 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 11-Apr-87 11:24:02 EST
References: <207@cbstr1.att.com>
Reply-To: allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon Allbery)
Followup-To: news.software.b
Organization: Cleveland Public Access UN*X, Cleveland, Oh
Lines: 32

As quoted from <207@cbstr1.att.com> by Karl.Kleinpaste@cbstr1.att.com:
+---------------
| 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.
| 
| Opinion, countersuggestion, improvement?
+---------------

In the And-You-Can-Have-This-Feature-NOW department:

I use this in my RN startup file; put it in RNINIT for systemwide use
(remember to delete the \ at the end of lines and join it into one line!):

-ENEWSHEADER="Newsgroups: %F\\nSubject: %[subject]\\nReferences: %R\\n\
Reply-To: %L@%H.UUCP (%N)\\nFollowup-To: %(%F=^\\([^,]*\\),.*$?%1:%F)\\n\
Distribution: %D\\nOrganization: %o\\n\\n"

Note the Followup-To: expression:  it pulls the first newsgroup in the list
and makes that the single Followup-To: newsgroup.

++Brando
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