Re: Posting to gname

On Thu, Apr 16, 2015 at 11:04 AM, Buck Calabro <kc2hiz@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On 4/16/2015 10:17 AM, Sam_L wrote:

Anyone know if this is a setting that I need to change In Thunderbird?

Use 'Followup' instead of 'Reply'.

Interesting. It seems a lot of folks use Thunderbird. I used to,
years ago, before a couple of things changed: (1) I became vastly
less active on Usenet and (2) I got a Gmail account. I preferred
Gmail's browser interface for e-mail, so around that time I also
switched to Google Groups in the browser (which I found tolerable, not
superior).

I guess (not having touched it in so long) Thunderbird has trained
folks not to know the difference between reply and followup. Or
perhaps it's the "fault" of these lists being ostensibly "mailing
lists" rather than "newsgroups". I had completely forgotten about
followup myself, since I consume these lists purely as e-mail.

But now that you mention it, in the hazy recesses of my memory are the
ancient Unix newsreaders rn, nn, and tin. And it's coming back to me
that when I was looking at an article, I could hit 'r' to reply to
sender via e-mail or 'f' to post a follow-up message to the newsgroup.

It was easy to keep these straight, because in my mind, these were
very different channels. Mail is mail and news is news, and never the
twain shall meet. Now that I almost exclusively use e-mail, I even
thought momentarily that you said "forward" instead of "followup".

John Y.