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From: bill@twwells.uucp (T. William Wells)
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Subject: Re: usa
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Date: 2 Apr 89 03:31:54 GMT
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In article <3513@aplcomm.jhuapl.edu> jwm@aplvax.jhuapl.edu (Jim Meritt) writes:
: Could the moderators of the various groups put their address in the "reply to"
: filed of the postings so that the follow-ups get mailed to the moderator for
: posting instead of the originator?
:
: Or am I missing something?   (not the first time)

Yes. As I'm sure you know, followups should go to the moderator;
replies should go to the poster. The version of the news software that
I use (B news 2.11 patchlevel 14 & rn) does this correctly: followups
are mailed, via the Newsgroups: line and the mailpaths file, to a site
which knows to forward them to the moderator. Replies are sent via
mail to the poster, using the Reply-To: or From: lines.

To make this work correctly, those lines should have the original
poster's address in them.

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Bill
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