XPost: alt.comp.os.windows-10   
   From: robin_listas@es.invalid   
      
   On 2024-04-01 20:06, Frank Slootweg wrote:   
   > 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:'.   
   >   
   > [...]   
      
   Absolutely.   
      
      
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   Cheers, Carlos.   
      
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