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From: Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: Python recompile
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Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2025 07:09:32 +0000
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On 05/03/2025 06:58, Loris Bennett wrote:
> Kaz Kylheku <643-408-1753@kylheku.com> writes:
> 
>> On 2025-03-04, Loris Bennett <loris.bennett@fu-berlin.de> wrote:
>>> At the risk of sounding intolerant, I suggest that the discussion not be
>>> crossposted comp.lang.python.
>>
>> You did not do it in the best way. The way this suggestion is performed
>> is like this, using a built-in Usenet mechanism:
>>
>> 1. Keep the Newsgroups: line as-is.
>>     1. a) Unless it contains a ridiculous number of newsgroups,
>>           in which case consider killfiling the thread rather
>>           than adding to it, or else trim out obviously
>>           ridiculous newsgroup choices to get it down to three or four.
>> 2. Add a header called "Followup-To:" to your posting which lists
>>     the newsgroups where you would like replies to article to be
>>     directed.
>> 3. Mention in the article of the body that you're doing this,
>>     for example:
>>
>>        "I think this discussion doesn't belong in comp.lang.python, so
>>        I'm setting Followup-To accordingly to omit that group."
> 
> Thank you for the information - I had not been aware of this possibility.
> 
>> Followup-To is exactly that: a suggestion. Users agents can (and do)
>> prompt the user whether they want to honor Followup-To or ignore it.
> 
> Yes, my UA, Gnus, did indeed prompt me.
> 
>> Followup-To is much better than just removing newsgroups from the
>> Newsgroups line, because doing so fragments the thread without
>> warning.
> 
> But will there be any difference for the newsgroup which has been
> removed?  If the follow-up suggestion is adhered to, the thread will
> just end in the same way it would if the group had been removed from the
> list of newsgroups, won't it?

Not quite. The difference is that your "Followup-To" is posted in 
all the original groups, so people know (you remembered to say 
"F'ups set to comp.whatever.thingy" somewhere in your article, 
yes?) that if they want to read replies to your reply they can 
find them in the F'up-To group you specified.

Without the F'up-to, your branch of the thread just... stops, 
without explanation.

==================================================
======> Follow-ups set to comp.programming <======
==================================================
by way of an example.

If someone would kindly reply to me to complete the example, you 
will find that reply in comp.programming but not here in comp.lang.c.

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Richard Heathfield
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