Re: Whats the re: about

Tiddy Ogg wrote:
On Thu, 06 Jul 2006 15:49:27 GMT, "linkuk" <link@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Anyone explain why all messages in this group seems to have re: xxxx in the
subject line unlike other groups doesnt?
Somebody is cross posting these things all over the UK network. I'm
not sure how it's done, as there doesn't seem to be any one source for
all this, but it is a pain in the fundament.

Tiddy Ogg.
http://www.tiddyogg.co.uk

Someone is posting and replying in other newsgroups and setting the
"Followup-To" field to this, and other, groups. Then when anyone
replies to the original post the replies are copied to this group,
without the original post.

I expect they will grow out of it soon.

Gareth
.

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