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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
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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