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- From: steveh@grafex.Cupertino.CA.US (Steve Harding KA6ETB)
- Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle,sbay.waffle
- Subject: Re: Cross posting (was Fun with MS Windows)
- Keywords: waffle crossposting
- Message-ID: <s8ReuB3w165w@grafex.Cupertino.CA.US>
- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 92 16:22:15 PST
- References: <2gZDuB2w165w@Garg.Campbell.CA.US>
- Distribution: sbay
- Organization: The GRAFex Company
- Lines: 26
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- Bob Van Cleef <revc@Garg.Campbell.CA.US> writes:
-
- > Message to Tom:
- >
- > For the next version:
- >
- > Please allow the editing of all headers, especially the To:
- > and Newgroups: lines. Currently, if you do a followup to a
- > cross-posted newsgroup, there is no method to delete the
- > inappropriate groups.
- >
- > For example: This post is a followup to a message posted to
- > sbay.waffle and comp.bbs.waffle. I cannot drop either
- > post from the distribution. To my knowledge, about the only
- > thing I can do is limit the damage by changing the Distribution:
- >
- > Distribition: sbay (this post is "us")
-
- Compounding the problem. It appears that even if the Dist is set for
- sbay, and it is crossposted to a dist:world group...guess what?
-
- steve
-
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