Crossposting. Was: "What is the box thing near the fan aperture?"

Daniel James wrote in
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In article , Ric wrote:
You would be correct if you had included a "REPLY-TO" group in your
header. You didn't, so you aren't.

"Reply-To:" headers do more harm than good.

You mean "follow up to".

If a question is asked in five groups and anwered in (any) one of those
groups the answer *should* be visible in all five, so that everyone who
sees the question can also see that it has been answered. The common
netiquette advice to use a "Reply-To:" to direct all answers to a
single group is actually counter-productive.

Netiquette advice is to set a followupto, and mention that in the body.
anyone who wants to read the thread can subscribe to that group. Anyone
who isn't interested need do nothing, unless that group is the one being
followed-upped-to, in which case they can filter the thread out.



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