An aside on "Followup-To" header (was Re: Fast CPUs with PCT)

[90taobri@wave.scar.utoronto.ca (TAO BRIAN T)]

In article <1993Jul20.093300.10018@actrix.gen.nz>, David Empson writes...
> 
> By the way: you had an error in your article header.  It seems you set
> the "Followup-to" line to your mail address.  It is supposed to
> contain a newsgroup name.  There is no way to force people to reply in
> E-Mail (you can ask them to).  You can put a "reply-to" line in your
> header, but that will only have an affect if they use the "reply"
> command instead of "follow-up".

    Setting the "Followup-To:" header to "poster" will force all replies
to be mailed back to the originating address.  This has been used
occasionally on news.groups and news.announce.newsgroups.  This assumes
that your newsreader understands this convention.
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