Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cbmvax!snark!eric From: eric@snark.UUCP (Eric S. Raymond) Newsgroups: news.software.b Subject: Re: need patch for controlling cross-posted articles Summary: 3.0 has something like this Message-ID:Date: 19 Sep 88 16:01:59 GMT References: Organization: Wild-Eyed Extremists for Freedom, Inc. Lines: 14 In article Gordon Moffett writes: > If an article is cross-posted, generate a "Followup-To:" line > which includes only ONE newsgroup, which is the first in the > list from the "Newsgroups:" line. (An existing non-null > "Followup-To:" line would not be overridden.) In 3.0, the Newsgroups line on a followup is truncated to the first group unless the '-C' option has been given to postnews. This gives a similar effect without raising the retransmission overhead on the article. -- Eric S. Raymond (the mad mastermind of TMN-Netnews) UUCP: ...!{uunet,att,rutgers}!snark!eric = eric@snark.UUCP Post: 22 S. Warren Avenue, Malvern, PA 19355 Phone: (215)-296-5718