XPost: alt.comp.os.windows-10   
   From: this@ddress.is.invalid   
      
   candycanearter07  wrote:   
   > Frank Slootweg  wrote at 15:48 this Monday (GMT):   
   > > candycanearter07  wrote:   
   > >> ["Followup-To:" header set to alt.os.linux.]   
   > >   
   > >   Ignored, because this is about Windows. (Not to mention that   
   > > 'Followup-To:' is nearly always inappropriate.)   
   >   
   > I've been told the opposite..   
      
     That's another wrong thing you've been told! :-)   
      
     I won't go in all the situations where it's wrong, but will just take   
   this example.   
      
     If I had honoured your 'Followup-To:', I would not see any responses,   
   i.e. also not any responses to *my own* response (which is, as I said,   
   about Windows, *not* Linux), because I'm not subscribed to alt.os.linux.   
      
     So you were effectively forcing me - *and* any other user who is not   
   subscribed to alt.os.linux - to subscribe, just because you think it's   
   the good thing to do.   
      
     I hope you realize how inconsiderate and rude that is.   
      
     Also a 'Followup-To: alt.comp.os.windows-10' would have been   
   inappropriate, because you cut off any subscribers of alt.os.linux, who   
   might be interested in further responses.   
      
     Bottom line: Do *not* use 'Followup-To:'.   
      
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