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

From: Roman Czyborra <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 01 Apr 1995 10:26:05 +0200

> This simple rule will suffice to avoid the problem being discussed:
> If a message has no Path: header, post no News follow-ups to it.

I hate to tell you.  If I copy a mail message to a newsgroup they both
contain a To and Newsgroups but the mail will only have Received lines
but no Path and you will still want to follow up to all recipients.  I
also strip the longish Path when I save articles from within my news
reader that I want to followup to with my mail composer.

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From: Rahul Dhesi <[email-masked]>
Date: 2 Apr 1995 01:40:45 GMT

In <[email-masked]> Roman Czyborra
<[email-masked]> writes:

>If I copy a mail message to a newsgroup they both
>but no Path and you will still want to follow up to all recipients.  

Let's clarify:

If you are prone to accidentally post public responses to private
email, then the rule

   If a message has no Path: header, post no News follow-ups to it

will prevent such errors.  If you are not having any such problems, and
you are always sure about when it's appropriate to post a Usenet
response to private email, then you and your software can safely ignore
this rule.
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Rahul Dhesi <[email-masked]>
"please ignore Dhesi" -- Mark Crispin <[email-masked]>