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  • A guy responds (providing useful info), but He sets Followup-to: one group

    From HenHanna@HenHanna@devnull.tb to news.software.readers,alt.culture.usenet,sci.lang,alt.usage.english on Mon Jul 22 12:55:32 2024
    From Newsgroup: alt.culture.usenet


    i ask a question in 4 NGs (newsGroups).

    A guy responds (and provides some useful info),
    but this Guy has set Followup-to: one group

    is he saying this?
    1. My info is good enough for 4 groups
    2. BUT anyone else's Subseq. info (or comment) is not (good enuf)


    ---------- is there another explanation of his Psychology ?
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  • From snipeco.2@snipeco.2@gmail.com (Sn!pe) to news.software.readers,alt.culture.usenet,sci.lang,alt.usage.english on Mon Jul 22 21:16:58 2024
    From Newsgroup: alt.culture.usenet

    HenHanna <HenHanna@devnull.tb> wrote:

    i ask a question in 4 NGs (newsGroups).

    A guy responds (and provides some useful info),
    but this Guy has set Followup-to: one group

    is he saying this?
    1. My info is good enough for 4 groups
    2. BUT anyone else's Subseq. info (or comment) is not (good enuf)


    ---------- is there another explanation of his Psychology ?


    Netiquette and proper regard for Usenet custom and usage.
    Are you some kind of n00b?

    Followup-To: alt.culture.usenet
    - which is the appropriate group for this topic.
    --
    ^-^. Sn!pe, PTB, FIBS - Professional Crastinator

    My pet rock Gordon just is.
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  • From Steve Hayes@hayesstw@telkomsa.net to news.software.readers,alt.culture.usenet,sci.lang,alt.usage.english on Tue Jul 23 06:26:35 2024
    From Newsgroup: alt.culture.usenet

    On Mon, 22 Jul 2024 12:55:32 -0700, HenHanna <HenHanna@devnull.tb>
    wrote:


    i ask a question in 4 NGs (newsGroups).

    A guy responds (and provides some useful info),
    but this Guy has set Followup-to: one group

    is he saying this?
    1. My info is good enough for 4 groups
    2. BUT anyone else's Subseq. info (or comment) is not (good enuf)

    If a question is relevant to four groups then by all means post it in
    those four groups.

    But if a particular answer is not relevant to some of those groups,
    then in replying to that answer, set follow-ups to go only to those
    groups where the discussion is relevant.

    If someone in one of the groups where follow-ups are not set responds
    in a way that makes it relevant to that group again, they can always
    reset the follow-ups to their message to include that group again.

    Thread drift means that something can drift from being on-topic to
    off-topic to on-topic again, but if it stays off-topic in any group,
    set follow-ups to exclude that group from further discussion.
    --
    Steve Hayes from Tshwane, South Africa
    Web: http://www.khanya.org.za/stevesig.htm
    Blog: http://khanya.wordpress.com
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