VanguardLH wrote:
> "What's in a Name?" wrote in
> <news:484d77aa$0$3349$4c368faf@roadrunner.com>:
>
>> Has everyone heard about this one?
>>
>> From ZDNet
>> "Virus analysts at Kaspersky Lab have intercepted a new variant of
>> Gpcode, a malicious virus that encrypts important files on an
>> infected desktop and demands payment for a key to recover the data."
>>
>> http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=1251&tag=nl.e539
>>
>> max
>
>
> NOTE: Inappropriate use of FollowUp-To header was ignored. Original
> list of newsgroups was used for this reply.
>
>
> --- Rant on inappropriate use of the FollowUp-To header ---
>
> Don't use the FollowUp-To header. Posting to, say, 3 newsgroups but
> moving replies to just 1 of them or to a completely different one
> means you disconnect the visitors of those other 2 (or 3) newsgroups
> from the rest of the discussion. If a newsgroup is appropriate for
> your post then it is also appropriate for the replies. Or,
> converserly, if the continued discussion of your post is not
> appropriate in all the newsgroups to which you cross-posted then you
> should not have posted to those other newsgroups in the first place.
> You are using the FollowUp-To header to move replies to YOUR "home"
> newsgroup but which the users of the other newsgroups may not visit.
> After all, if you cross-post and include your "home" newsgroup then
> you'll see all those replies in your home newsgroup and meanwhile all
> the other users can still see the replies in their newsgroup where
> you decided to also publish your post.
>
> In http://www.faqs.org/faqs/usenet/primer/part1/, it says, "For a
> cross-post, you may want to set the Followup-To: header line to the
> most suitable group for the rest of the discussion".

Exactly. He did the right thing.

> Read another
> way, that means you disconnect the discussion from all the visitors
> of the other newsgroups to which you decided to publish your post.

In your not-humble, ignorant opinion.

<snipped evidence that Vanguard has way too much time on his hands and a
boulder on his shoulder>

You're a control freak.

Now say something about my sig.

--
Rhonda Lea Kirk Fries

If a man is offered a fact which goes against his instincts, he will
scrutinize it closely, and unless the evidence is overwhelming, he will
refuse to believe it. If, on the other hand, he is offered something
which affords a reason for acting in accordance to his instincts, he
will accept it even on the slightest evidence. The origin of myths is
explained in this way. - Bertrand Russell