From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Barry Margolin Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Is Emacs on Aqua crippleware or is it just broken? Date: Thu, 08 May 2003 19:42:09 GMT Organization: Genuity Managed Services, Woburn, MA Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <39d9c156.0305042200.1639a252@posting.google.com> <39d9c156.0305071204.37c62606@posting.google.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1052427264 3421 80.91.224.249 (8 May 2003 20:54:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 8 May 2003 20:54:24 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu May 08 22:54:22 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19DsOv-0000r0-00 for ; Thu, 08 May 2003 22:54:01 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 19DsLu-00067B-05 for gnu-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 08 May 2003 16:50:54 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!paloalto-snf1.gtei.net!mtvwca1-snh1.ops.genuity.net!crtntx1-snh1.gtei.net!news.gtei.net!paloalto-snr1.gtei.net.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help,comp.sys.mac.apps Mail-Copies-To: never X-Newsreader: trn 4.0-test72 (19 April 1999) Originator: barmar@genuity.net (Barry Margolin) Original-Lines: 37 Original-X-Trace: /bGnt8oksAZQDg+Sgr3yZdwK5XItDNzIIPWAfd2dAOO3VmbrKxSHQXt6oI3HeRrXJ9tJ7bbffrIa!bHzjkX0HzmkmLlDyvr3aK3Q2+aByHVgFeTugOB8MS1tgh2GMKDLGl4aNcxckkyQte5MBbQGx7vcD!6hw641xfKSwR Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@gte.net X-Abuse-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 08 May 2003 19:42:09 GMT Original-Distribution: world Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:112965 comp.sys.mac.apps:360910 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:9460 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:9460 In article , Oliver Scholz wrote: >bk_usenet@yahoo.co.uk (BK) writes: > >> Oliver Scholz wrote ... >[...] >>> I set a Follow-up to alt.religion.emacs in my first post to this >>> particular subthread. If you hadn't ignored it, we would discuss this >>> now in the proper forum. >> >> Would you care to explain this? >> >> First, all I can see is "gnu.emacs.help" and "comp.sys.mac.apps", so I >> don't really understand what you mean by "follow up set to >> alt.religion.emacs" > >I have not crossposted to alt.religion.emacs. Maybe that was a >mistake. I have added the line "Follow-up: alt.religion.emacs" to the >header of my post. This Follow-up header is supposed to cause a >recipient's newsreader to post follow-ups to a different newsgroup. I >believe that this is some RFC standard, but I don't know for sure. It >is common practise in many of the newsgroups I read to use this to >change the group if a discussion has become off-topic or is supected >to become off-topic. It is common to add line like "Follow up set to >..." or "F'up to: ..." to one's post to indicate to silent readers >that follow-ups are expected to appear in a different group. It seems like bad practice to direct followups to a group not in the original list. The replies will show up there, but the original message to which they refer will not, so the readers of that group will find it confusing. -- Barry Margolin, barry.margolin@level3.com Genuity Managed Services, a Level(3) Company, Woburn, MA *** DON'T SEND TECHNICAL QUESTIONS DIRECTLY TO ME, post them to newsgroups. Please DON'T copy followups to me -- I'll assume it wasn't posted to the group.