>> Actually, they annoy the hell out of me.. I was being a smarta**. 

> i hear ya... almost as much as postings in fidonet that are a reply
> to someone in specific (like yours to me) coming in addressed To: 
> ALL... undoubtedly because of some sort of newsgroup-style access 
> that doesn't employ the additional features and capabilities to link 
> properly in fidonet... i wouldn't even have read your reply if i 
> hadn't recognized it (after reading it twice!) as a reply 
> specifically to me and my message... that's an annoyance, too O:)

 MJR> I was pretty sure the reply functionality was working in
 MJR> synchronet's nntp...  it seems to be running fine on my board to
 MJR> 0net ..

reply functionality does work however, on the fido side, it is coming in
addressed to ALL instead of to the individual that you are replying to...
this is one major difference from normal nntp messaging... there is the
X-FTN-TO control line that was created specifically to help with this so
that when stuff came back thru, it was FROM: YOU and TO: ME... probably
just a lack of implementation of the X-FTN-TO flag...

 MJR>  I don't carry fido, and am  posting on another bbs.

yes, i believe that you are writting from the synchronet bbs author's site...

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