Subject: [Q]: Follow ups

From: Matt Chatterley <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 11 Aug 1996 00:10:33 +0000

Is there an easy (or relatively easy) way to set "follow-up-to" in a news
post using pine? If there is, I can't find it.. a slot in the headers
(rich headers - ^R) was all that occured to me.. and I couldn't see
anything there.. would I need to set something in complex-headers?

Regards,

	-Matt Chatterley
http://user.itl.net/~neddy/index.html

"Do not meddle in the affairs of Wizards, for they are subtle and quick to 
anger." --J.R.R Tolkien

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From: Paul O Bartlett <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 10 Aug 1996 20:21:49 -0400

> anything there.. would I need to set something in complex-headers?

    In your personal configuration, you can add customized headers. 
Then, when you invoke ^R, "Follow-up-to:" (or however you spell it)
it will be there for you to fill in.  I don't know of any automatic way 
to fill in the actual value, and I would presume you wouldn't want to,
anyway, because, depending on cross-posting, you might want to fill 
it in this way or that.

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From: Alvin Brinson <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 11 Aug 1996 09:19:09 -0500

> anything there.. would I need to set something in complex-headers?

This is not the most elegant solution, but will work:
on the ABSOLUTE FIRST line of your post, put "Follow-up-to: wherever"
without the quotes. wherever= whatever you want that to be.

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From: Mike Brudenell <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 13 Aug 1996 10:41:55 +0100 (BST)

Before saying anything further let me say that I have not tried this
but...

I *really* expect this NOT to work (at least with Pine).

Pine's message composition screen maintains two distinct areas: one for
header information, one for the message text.

When these are combined, just before passing to sendmail (or whatever) for
delivery the headers are properly formatted *and a blank line placed after
them* before the message text itself is included.

The blank line signifies to mail delivery software that the headers have
ended, and that what follows is message text.  Thus it is impossible using
this model to add a header by including it as the first line of your
message body text.

(By the way, the proper name of the field in question is "Followup-to:")

Cheers,

Mike Brudenell                                         <[email-masked]>
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