Subj : Re: Newsgroup replies to To : Digital Man From : Tharius Date : Wed Aug 31 2005 02:16 am "Digital Man" wrote in message news:4314B9A9.9095.dove-hlp@vert.synchro.net... > > Someone gave me a slap on the wrist in Fido (not someone I'm worried > > about, > > but they had a point) that my reader was posting replies to ALL instead > > of > > the sender. > > > > I explored my local groups and see that Outlook responds to messages in > > the > > locals and in dovenet just fine, with the TO field being the person I'm > > responding to, however, my fidonet echomail is responding to ALL > > > > Is there perhaps a toggle I made when setting up the other areas that I > > missed when I did a .na import? Any suggestions are very welcome. > No, what you're experiencing is a shortcoming of the NNTP (network news > transfer protocol) article format (doesn't include a "to" field). The I did know that NNTP normally posts to all, and that if we were all using newsreaders that we probably wouldn't notice at all :) > Synchronet NNTP service will use a "to" field if present (or > "X-comment-to" or > "apparently-to"), but Outlook Express doesn't add any of those header > fields. But I did guess that Synch was probably doing some post-import processing. I think I understand most of what you've said, it's similar in method to the kludge lines that were (are?) so popular with fidonet messaging to begin with. > This feature *should* work in FidoNet message areas as well. What version > (and > revision) of SBBSecho are you using? And what version of Synchronet? If > you I am using SBBSecho 2.10/w32/rev 1.163 and Synchronet 3.12a (Dec 31, 2004) with the updates to the scripts referred to on the Jan 27 note. > want to investigate the cause more closely, you can view the message > header > fields of the message you're replying to in Synchronet (via Telnet) using > the > "O, H" command from the reading message prompt. And your reply message > posted > in OE should have a "in-reply-to" header field which matches the original > messages "rfc822msgid" field. Here's a 10 million dollar question. In the reply quote header it says "Digital Man" wrote in message news:4314B9A9.9095.dove-hlp@vert.synchro.net... If I delete the news: part would that screw up the lookup? I have been removing it thinking of how it must look in 80 character width readers. Reply to my original new post, done within Sync RFC822ReplyID <430F2B83.1.fidobbsdoord@aceshigh.dyn.dhs.org> From one of my replies : RFC822ReplyID <4310E279.2.fidobbsdoord@aceshigh.dyn.dhs.org> RFC822MsgID <43111DB3.3.fidobbsdoord@aceshigh.dyn.dhs.org> Then the reply to that message : RFC822ReplyID <43111DB3.3.fidobbsdoord@aceshigh.dyn.dhs.org> And my reply to that one RFC822ReplyID <4311FBC6.4.fidobbsdoord@aceshigh.dyn.dhs.org> RFC822MsgID <43132772.5.fidobbsdoord@aceshigh.dyn.dhs.org> The specific echo this has been noted in is FN_SYSOP, but I've also observed it in BBSDOOR_DISCUSSION --- þ Synchronet þ [aceshigh.dyn.dhs.org] - Come fly our friendly skies! .