A most amazing occurrence

[F Murtz]

I just tried to reply to "Is this a stoat" but it does not seem to show up either from eternal september or bigpond but if I test (new post)or reply to a different post it works.

[Nick Leverton]

You'll have to look in cam.misc for your reply, the OP set followups there for some reason.

Nick

[F Murtz]

It seems to only not work if I reply to original OP because it works with a later poster. ???

[Andy Burns]

I see your later(?) stoat reply, plus your test thread and this thread all in uk.d-i-y on giganews

[F Murtz]

It only failed when I clicked on the original post and tried to reply.

[Nick Leverton]

It didn't fail, but the OP sent it to a different newsgroup.

Nick

[The Natural Philosopher]

I set it randomly actually

Albsni has some strnage ideas about X-posting.......

"Why is my crosspost not accepted?

Cross posting heated discussions from a high-traffic group to a low-traffic group can destroy the smaller group, especially if the discussion is off-topic there. One reason for the severity of cross post floodding is that only few users ever check the adequacy of the group list in their reply. For that reason Albasani is configured to require a Followup-To: with some cross posts. This a suggestion in which group the thread should continue.

Unfortunately Outlook Express hides this feature in an obscure menu item. See How to set a Followup-To with Outlook Express

Affected groups

The restriction applies to group names matching at least one of the following words.

0d kook politics politiek politik politique alt.config ch.talk rec.photo.digital soc.culture"

This means that I cant post acceptably to a spectrum of - say - uk.d-i-y, cam.misc (for localish interest) and the sorts of posts that appear in uk.d-i-y X posted to places like alt.computer.hardware etc etc don't work properly either.

Is probably time to find a better news feed.

[F Murtz]

Did not see that just replied as usual,he caused me to send Ferret a few times and people on the other group would be wondering what th I was up to. Why would any one not want uk.d-i-y folk to see follow ups to their question. I notice another poster made follow ups to his follow up to uk.diy only would that be a quiet protest?

[Tim Lamb]

Turnpike would not post to cam.misc only. Presumably because it is not selected in my news list. The message simply stayed in the outbox.

When someone mentioned the follow up setting I stripped out cam.misc rather than just adding uk.d-i-y, nothing sinister intended:-)

regards

[Brian Gaff]

A very astoat observation, do you mink its weaselling out of carrying the thread?

Brian

[Brian Gaff]

That answers the question why only some of my replies got through then, who would do such a silly thing?

Brian

[Brian Gaff]

its all too much. I personally feel that if something incorrectly gets to a group not intended its as annoying as it flooding another group. after all one does not have to read all posts, not even in outlook express. Brian

[Lyndsay]

Noted, TNP, not cross pointed for a while, I stick to cam.misc as people I know or... not know.

BTW your 3 cats here are thriving, playful and eating well! Lyn

[Lyndsay]

TNP,

Very Interesting.

I do hope newsgroups survive, possibly one of the oldest part of the Internet. Lyn

[Paul N]

The group comp.lang.c was subject to an attack like this at one point

- I believe they called it a "splashback" attack. Someone who didn't like the group posted lots of plausible questions in other groups, with followups set only to comp.lang.c, which consequently filled up with lots of well-meaning answers to irrelevant questions.

[Gib Bogle]

Fascinating.

[Frederick Williams]

Which, for no good reason, reminds me that Dennis Ritchie died over the weekend. I was the world's worst programmer, but one of the few things that I did (eventually) understand was C.