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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
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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.

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I've done good in this world. Now I'm tired and just want to be a cranky 
dirty old man.