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From: Christian Seibold <krixano@mailbox.org>
Subject: Re: Well hello gemini
Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2022 07:59:53 -0600
Message-ID: <squvgq$3k8$1@gioia.aioe.org>
On 1/3/2022 7:47 AM, Dan Purgert wrote:
Christian Seibold wrote:
> On 1/3/2022 6:59 AM, Ben wrote:
>> On 1/3/22 16:17, Christian Seibold wrote:
>>> This is my first time using Usenet/NNTP ever, so I'm not sure if I'm
>>> doing this correctly (in fact, it's my second attempt at sending a
>>> message, lol).
>>
>> I got your message! Did you get mine? >_>
>>
> Yep! I'm still learning how to do this stuff in Thunderbird. There's a
> followup which will automatically put in the newsgroup, but it doesn't
> put in the followup-to reply email address, it seems. And Reply puts in
> the reply to, but not the newsgroup. It's odd.
The "Followup-To" header is akin to an email "Reply-To" header. That is,
it's a "special" indicator that's used to redirect replies ("Followups"
in Usenet parlance) away from what the "defaults" would otherwise
indicate.
In an email, you'd have something like this
| From: noreply@company.com
| To: user@email.com
| Reply-To: info@company.com
Such that if "user@email.com" hit "reply" in their mail client, the
email would be sent to "info@company.com" instead of "noreply".
Usenet is similar, although instead of indicating an email address you
want someone to reply to, you are indicating which newsgroup you want to
read their reply in. For example, let's say I was asking for a good
Gemini server to run on a Linux VM. My initial headers would be:
| Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.gemini,alt.os.linux
| From: ( me :) )
| Subject: Looking for a Gemini server to run on Debian
| Followup-To: alt.os.linux
Which will send my initial message to BOTH groups, but anyone responding
would only be sending their message to the alt.os.linux newsgroup,
instead of both.
HTH :)
>
I think the other thing I was missing was that there seems to be a
"References" header thing that seems to tell which reply you are
replying to, correct me if I'm wrong.
Also, thanks! That definitely helps. The Followup-To thing is really
interesting.
Parent:
Re: Well hello gemini (by Dan Purgert <dan@djph.net> on Mon, 3 Jan 2022 13:47:06 -0000 (UTC))
Start of thread:
Well hello gemini (by Kévin <usenet.m4o5b@id.oh.mg> on Tue, 26 Oct 2021 19:44:51 +0200)
Children:
Re: Well hello gemini (by Dan Purgert <dan@djph.net> on Mon, 3 Jan 2022 14:16:15 -0000 (UTC))