bsa@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon Allbery) (06/30/85)
Expires: Quoted from <11323@brl-tgr.ARPA> ["Re: Re: Women and the consumption of toilet paper."], by ron@brl-tgr.ARPA (Ron Natalie <ron>)... +--------------- | Perhaps, we should enforce some more social reform through software (as | was done with the last release of news) in that when you hit followup | to a message for more than one group that it asks you group by group | which of the ones you wish your followup to appear in (it already knows | to followup net.general -> net.followup). +--------------- You might note Chuq's message. What good is new software in 2.10.3 or whatever when half of the net is still running A news, notesfiles, or 2.10.1 or older? But if you want it, I have what I *think* does the job in rn -- a NEWSHEADER line that strips all but the first newsgroup in any Followup-To: line. It could also be stuck into the Newsgroups: part of the header. The line is as follows (*NOTE* This usually works, but I seem to remember one time that it didn't; an rn escape hacker might try reworking it someday): -ENEWSHEADER="Newsgroups: %F\\nSubject: @#@#** YOUR SUBJECT HERE\ **#@#@\\nSummary: @#@#** SUMMARY **#@#@\\nExpires:\\nReferences\ : %R\\nReply-To: %L@%H.UUCP (%N)\\nFollowup-To: %(%F=^\\(.*\\),.\ *$?%1:%F)\\nDistribution: %D\\nOrganization: %o\\n\\n" Please note that all lines are aligned left and right; the indentation on line 2 is an actual space. Also, delete the trailing backslashes and join the lines together; I don't think rn can handle those \s at the ends of the lines. You might also notice the weird Subject: and Summary lines. They are intended to insure that the message isn't just given the subject of its parent when it may have a very different content. (But some of you have seen what happens when I forget to set the subject! Maybe an option to Pnews.SH would be better for this purpose?) --bsa -- Brandon Allbery, Unix Consultant -- 6504 Chestnut Road, Independence, OH 44131 decvax!cwruecmp!ncoast!bsa; ncoast!bsa@case.csnet; +1 216 524 1416; 74106,1032 ========================> Trekkies have Warped minds. <=======================