Subject: Please help me turn off this "feature"

From: [email-masked] (Bryon Sutherland)
Date: 28 Mar 1996 23:13:59 GMT

There is one feature of Pine that I absolutely hate, hopefully someone
will know how to turn it off.

When I receive a message that is a response from something I posted to
usenet, occasionally Pine wants to send my reply to that message to
usenet, not to the person who sent the mail to me.  I then have to cancel
my letter and start over.  I *never* want to post a response in e-mail to
usenet.

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From: kremžská HOŘČICE <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 29 Mar 1996 04:04:20 +0200

> will know how to turn it off.

    Upgrade to 3.92...

> usenet, not to the person who sent the mail to me.

    In 3.92, if a message arrives in your mail such as this one, Pine will
see that it's both posted to Usenet and sent to you by mail, so it's
entirely appropriate to continue this meaningless debate in public should
you choose.  However, otherwise, if Pine cannot tell for sure that the
mail is also posted to news, it will assume it isn't.

    It's also a bit more clear when you choose to reply, because you will
be asked if you want to Reply to the author (the default if I remember),
or only Follow-up to news, or do Both (as a courtesy, for example, if, as
is the case in this country, incoming news is nine days delayed from the
time it is posted, sheesh, or if the news server manages to lose half the
articles it should have).

>  I then have to cancel
> my letter and start over.

    Not necessarily -- if you aren't able to use 3.92 right away, go to
the headers, ^Kill the Newsgroups: header, and put the e-mail address in
the To: header.  Ugly if you don't have the e-mail address handy, I guess,
but still 3.92 is worth the upgrade to eliminate this need.

>  I *never* want to post a response in e-mail to
> usenet.

    Never?  A bit strong.  I can think of times you might, such as in
response to this message which is both mailed and posted to news, should
you reply to the e-mail copy before seeing the news copy...

Barry Bouwsma
Radio Praha Troublemaker