Date: Sun, 29 Aug 1999 14:52:59 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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To: "Andrew R. Gillett" <arg AT whangomatic DOT freeserve DOT co DOT uk>
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Subject: Re: A question about this newsgroup
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On Sat, 28 Aug 1999, Andrew R. Gillett wrote:

> > I think it is because this "newsgroup" is also a mailing list. All
> > mailing list messages are also sent to the newsgroup, and the reply
> > address is djgpp AT delorie DOT com so that all replies get back to the
> > mailing list.
> 
> Except that they don't. When I reply to a post, I reply to it in the 
> newsgroup.

If the original poster reads the news group via its email gateway (as
I suspect he does), then the Reply-to header is added by the gateway
software, even if your mailer doesn't.

> Should I be CCing all my newsgroup posts to djgpp AT delorie DOT com

No, you should never do that.  Doing that will cause your message to
appear twice.

> If so, there should be a 
> newsgroup FAQ which tells people to do this, instead of assuming they'll 
> find out by telepathy.

This news group *does* have a FAQ, and it does NOT tell you to post
twice, precisely because it's wrong to do that.  Having a gateway
means that everybody posts by whatever way is convenient to them, and
all the others see it, only once.  See section 20.2 of the FAQ for
more details.