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Path: ...!2.eu.feeder.erje.net!feeder.erje.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action Subject: Re: Developer Rules Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2024 18:11:26 -0700 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 42 Message-ID: <v79q3r$238mv$1@dont-email.me> References: <40q29j5bifu76bjldgq7f7u22m496n6fek@4ax.com> <v737pj$n6pc$1@dont-email.me> <slrnv9ajfn.5m6.candycanearter07@candydeb.host.invalid> <lfl2jfF1nesU1@mid.individual.net> <slrnv9d2it.6f0.candycanearter07@candydeb.host.invalid> <v77583$1gpjp$1@dont-email.me> <slrnv9fpdo.4r9.candycanearter07@candydeb.host.invalid> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2024 03:11:23 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="7e274e3ca26879ac09505feb6a01d7a7"; logging-data="2204383"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX186mXpEu+6beMxrxs6VR2Yy" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:GMwhe1nAMtEwzpagsH9EGDkF/2o= Content-Language: en-US In-Reply-To: <slrnv9fpdo.4r9.candycanearter07@candydeb.host.invalid> Bytes: 3248 On 7/17/2024 8:40 AM, candycanearter07 wrote: > Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> wrote at 01:03 this Wednesday (GMT): >> On 7/16/2024 8:00 AM, candycanearter07 wrote: >>> ["Followup-To:" header set to comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action.] >>> Zersterer <nochsfentor@yahoo.com> wrote at 16:55 this Monday (GMT): >>>> candycanearter07 wrote: >>>> >>>>> An "immersive" game doesn't have to be realistic, it just needs to be >>>>> consistent with its world and have characters you care about >>>>> >>>> >>>> The most immersive game is USENET, where posters squirm this way and >>>> that, jump and duck, doing anything they can to avoid following up one >>>> of your posts. You're tainted! >>> >>> >>> Am I supposed to set Followup-To or not?? I have gotten conflicting >>> advice about this from multiple people! >> >> If you want replies to your posts in the same newsgroup then you don't >> "set" followup-to. It is only used if you want to redirect any replies >> to YOUR post to another newsgroup. > > > Right, but is it "proper" to set it or not? What are the rules here?? There aren't any rules. Trolls will tend to set follow-ups to other newsgroups so they don't receive the flames others try to sent to them and to set up a flame war between groups. But there are also perfectly reasonable uses to set follow-ups, such as trying to redirect a thread that is off-topic in one group to another group where it will be on-topic. Zersterer is being a troll. Go look at his post again and you will see that HE set up a follow-up to send replies to him to alt.slack and talk.bizarre. For the most part there is little reason to use follow-ups. You just need to be careful about OTHERS using it to try to stir up trouble. Other than that YOU CAN JUST IGNORE IT. -- I've done good in this world. Now I'm tired and just want to be a cranky dirty old man.