Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcsun!ukc!stl!dww From: dww@stl.stc.co.uk (David Wright) Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions Subject: Re: posting with rn Keywords: post rn postnews Message-ID: <2236@stl.stc.co.uk> Date: 1 Oct 89 11:08:35 GMT References: <925@wubios.wustl.edu> Sender: news@stl.stc.co.uk Reply-To: "David Wright"Organization: STC Technology Limited, London Road, Harlow, Essex, UK Lines: 13 In article <925@wubios.wustl.edu> david@wubios.wustl.edu (David J. Camp) writes: #Is there a way to use rn to post an original message, instead of using #postnews? I like its behavior when following up better than postnews, #and would like to use it when posting original articles. -David- Yes, just followup in the usual way, (f), but edit the Subject: line, and of course remove the References: lines and any old keywords, summary etc. If you have completely read the group you want to post in, you can still use f, and in this case you won't even have to delete the old refs etc as there won't be any - in fact that's a lot safer if you are not happy editing header lines -- and please do NOT edit header lines if you are not sure what they mean!