Re: Tablemate

On 12 Dec 2005 Ben Shimmin <bas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> <brian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> <brian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>> In article <84621ad84d.pnyoung@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
>> Dr Peter Young <pnyoung@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> BTW, why does the reply try to go to a group called "poster"?
>>
>> Ah! That was me messing with things I don't understand :-(
>> Found it in the menu for follow-ups in Pluto and tried to see if I could
>> get some clues as to its use by inserting it and usng !Help. I neither
>> got any clues nor did I remove it. Sorry!
>
> When you set the
>
> Followup-To: poster
>
> header, Peter's response to your message is encouraged to go directly to
> your email address (as an emailed `reply', rather than to the newsgroups
> as a `followup').

I thought that might have been the intention. However, Messenger's
header had in it:

Subject: Re: Tablemate
Newsgroups: poster

Which I can hardly see working.

With best wishes,

Peter.

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