Subject: Can I post/reply?

From: [email-masked] (Adam Vardy)
Date: 19 Aug 1996 23:38:28 GMT

Can I post a followup message to usenet and also reply to the poster by 
email at the same time?

- Adam

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From: Mike Brudenell <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 20 Aug 1996 09:24:15 +0100 (BST)

Yes, you can do this with Pine (I'm assuming you are asking about Pine as
this is a Pine information group, even though your question doesn't seem
to have been posted with Pine.) ...

When you are composing a message (original, reply or forwarding a message)
Pine by default shows you the headers it deems "most appropriate" for the
message.

Thus if you start composing a message whilst viewing a folder in an
"ordinary" folder collection you are shown e-mail type headers.  However
if you were reading a newsgroup in a news-collection you instead get shown
news type headers.

Whatever you are shown is _only_ the default: all the other headers are
still available.  To see/use them just put your cursor on any visible
header line and give the ^R (Rich Header) command shown in the menu at the
bottom of the screen.  This expands the header section to show ALL the
available header fields -- both e-mail type and news type.

For a message to be sent as e-mail the "To:" field should be filled in
(and also possiby the Bcc, Cc or Lcc fields).  For it to be sent as a News
message the "Newsgroups:" header needs filling in.  You can quite happily
fill in as many of these fields as you wish in order to send the message
to both mail and news.

Indeed later versions of Pine (3.93 onwards) offer you a choice when
replying to a newsgroup whether you want to e-mail the auther of the
article you're responding to, sned your reply to News, or do both.  Your
sinlge keystroke answer to this question will automatically fill in the
appropriate headers.

Cheers,

Mike Brudenell                                         <[email-masked]>
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From: [email-masked] (Svante Pettersson)
Date: Wed, 21 Aug 1996 23:51:19 GMT

>Can I post a followup message to usenet and also reply to the poster by 

You can in 3.95.

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