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From: Thomas Koenig
Date: Tue, 05 Dec 1989 13:03

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Sean Brunnoc <sbrunnoc@HAWK.ULOWELL.EDU> asked:
>   Does mail to BITNET sites from InterNet automatically get
> posted?

No. I think something else happened. You (and a few people more, this
is why I am posting instead of mailing this) probably used the
'reply' feature of your mailer. Unfortunately, the mails coming from
the list contain a Reply-To: - line in the header, so the reply goes
out to distribution, which, in this case, is exactly where you don't
want it to go.  This is quite a common mistake (I've made it myself
several times), but I don't see how it can easily be corrected
without inventing a computer which can read one's mind...

By the way, the above is IN NO WAY intended as a flame, just as an
explanation, and to keep other people from falling into the same
trap.

Thomas  Koenig                   UI0T@DKAUNI2.BITNET
                                 UI0T%DKAUNI2.BITNET@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU
(soon: new address, old machine) UI0T@IBM3090.RZ.UNI-KARLSRUHE.DBP.DE
'Ich dachte nicht, ich untersuchte.'            Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen

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From: UI0T@DKAUNI2.BITNET (Thomas Koenig)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.modula2
Subject: mail confusion
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