Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 3/23/84; site cbosgd.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!floyd!vax135!houxz!houxm!mhuxl!ulysses!cbosgd!mark From: mark@cbosgd.UUCP (Mark Horton) Newsgroups: net.news.group Subject: Re: nuke net.general? Message-ID: <36@cbosgd.UUCP> Date: Wed, 20-Jun-84 00:19:34 EDT Article-I.D.: cbosgd.36 Posted: Wed Jun 20 00:19:34 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 21-Jun-84 05:47:52 EDT References: <31@cbosgd.UUCP> <3052@brl-tgr.ARPA> Reply-To: mark@cbosgd.UUCP (Mark Horton) Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Columbus Lines: 18 Several people apparently didn't realize that net.announce is a special name to inews. 2.10 and later won't accept or forward a message that isn't appropriately marked by the moderator. Since the backbone sites all run 2.10.1 or later, a message posted by ordinary means to net.announce won't get very far, even if it's posted on a machine running an old netnews or notesfiles. net.announce is moderated, so that only appropriate (in the opinion of the moderator) postings are let through. The rest are usually redirected to a more appropriate newsgroup. To those wondering how followups were directed to net.news.group, you could either look at the article (/usr/spool/news/net/announce/something) or read rfc850 (doc/standard in the B news distribution) to see what extra header does this. In this case, it's Followup-To. There are others, such as Reply-To, that are useful. You can just add them in while in the editor. Mark