Subject: Re: Pine Assuming Mailed Replies are News Articles - a solution

From: Roman Czyborra <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 01 Apr 1995 10:42:37 +0200

> Personally, I wish there were a standard header that meant a message had
> been both mailed and posted, because some people do this as a matter of
> course, and I'd like to be able to easily tell procmail to throw such
> messages away.

RFC 1036 already defines that the "Newsgroups" line says where the
message was posted to.  I would tell procmail to automatically append
the Message-IDs of those mails to my killfile if I was stressed by
having to read the followups to my postings a second time in news.

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From: [email-masked] (Michael Shields)
Date: 1 Apr 1995 22:07:46 -0000

In article <[email-masked]>,
Roman Czyborra  <[email-masked]> wrote:
[I wrote:]
> having to read the followups to my postings a second time in news.

I don't want to read them in mail.  I want to read them in news.

If you want me to reply in mail, mail it.  If you want me to reply in
news, post it.  Don't do both.

I ca'n't tell procmail to discard all mail with a Newsgroups: header
because Pnews uses it differently.
-- 
Shields.

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From: [email-masked] (John Stanley)
Date: 1 Apr 1995 21:07:27 GMT

In article <[email-masked]>,
Roman Czyborra  <[email-masked]> wrote:
>RFC 1036 already defines 

RFC 1036 doesn't apply to mail.

>having to read the followups to my postings a second time in news.

You don't get it. The statement dealt with dropping them from mail, not
from news. You see, some people think that recreational discussions should
take place in a recreational forum like news, and mail should be for
more important things.