Re: Developer Rules

On 7/17/2024 8:40 AM, candycanearter07 wrote:

Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> wrote at 01:03 this Wednesday (GMT):

On 7/16/2024 8:00 AM, candycanearter07 wrote:

["Followup-To:" header set to comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action.]
Zersterer <nochsfentor@yahoo.com> wrote at 16:55 this Monday (GMT):

candycanearter07 wrote:
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An "immersive" game doesn't have to be realistic, it just needs to be
consistent with its world and have characters you care about
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The most immersive game is USENET, where posters squirm this way and
that, jump and duck, doing anything they can to avoid following up one
of your posts.  You're tainted!

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Am I supposed to set Followup-To or not?? I have gotten conflicting
advice about this from multiple people!

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If you want replies to your posts in the same newsgroup then you don't
"set" followup-to.  It is only used if you want to redirect any replies
to YOUR post to another newsgroup.

  Right, but is it "proper" to set it or not? What are the rules here??

There aren't any rules.  Trolls will tend to set follow-ups to other newsgroups so they don't receive the flames others try to sent to them and to set up a flame war between groups.  But there are also perfectly reasonable uses to set follow-ups, such as trying to redirect a thread that is off-topic in one group to another group where it will be on-topic.
Zersterer is being a troll.  Go look at his post again and you will see that HE set up a follow-up to send replies to him to alt.slack and talk.bizarre.  For the most part there is little reason to use follow-ups.  You just need to be careful about OTHERS using it to try to stir up trouble.  Other than that YOU CAN JUST IGNORE IT.
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