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in rec.music.country.western

In article <8JAN199311075633@rover.uchicago.edu) frank@rover.uchicago.edu writes:
)	Experienced netters learn, (some the hard way,) about followup bombs.
)	New netters, however, (and all of us were new at one time...) can easily
)	get burned. For any netter who does not understand what happens when
)	somebody plays with their "Follow-up To" lines, here's what happens.
)
)	A/ A normal netter, Ken,  posts a normal note. (Note that there is
)	   no Followup-to or X-ref line.)
)
))From: Ken_Ziolkowski@transarc.com
))Newsgroups: rec.music.country.western
))Subject: KGARth in Pittsburgh???
)
))  I don't know if this is some sort of New Year's
))practical joke, but evidently a radio station in
))Pittsburgh has switched to an all Garth Brooks
))format.
).. 		(rest of post deleted)
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)	B/ Then ... some bimbo named Roger posts a reply with cross-references
)	   to other news groups and followup's set to even more newsgroups
)	   (note the Xref: and Followup-to: lines in the following header)
)
))Xref: uchinews rec.music.country.western:7227 talk.bizarre:77026
))Newsgroups: rec.music.country.western,talk.bizarre
))Path: uchinews!linac!uwm.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sdd.hp.com!
))	wupost!udel!gatech!concert!uvaarpa!murdoch!Turing.ORG!carasso
))From: carasso@Turing.ORG (Roger Carasso)
))Subject: GARTH BROOKS 24 HOURS A DAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
))Followup-To: rec.music.country.western,misc.test,misc.jobs.offered,rec.pets,
))	rec.arts.startrek.current,talk.bizarre
))Keywords: cows, pigs, boots, mules, mud, beer, trucks
)..	(rest of post deleted)
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)	C/ Then, anyone responding to this posting in rec.music.country.western
)	   automagically has their reply posted to all the other groups.
)
)	D/ Readers of misc.jobs, for instance, become very annoyed having to
)	   wade through 47 posts about Garth, while they are trying to find
)	   a job. They, understandably, flame back at the poster. Unfortunately,
)	   it takes some detective work to work backwards thru posts to find out
)	   who STARTED the whole storm. Also, new netters wonder why somebody
)	   from misc.jobs is griping about an article they thought they posted
)	   to rec.music.country.western.
)
)	E/ Users who have gotten burned retract their article, hoping to shut
)	   off further flames from irate netters. This causes more problems if
)	   the bimbo included misc.test in the reply to, because the cancel
)	   message will also go to many newsservers, resulting in a flurry of
)	   e-mail messages to your account telling you "your test posting has
)	   been received at blah-blah-blah".
)
)I leave it as an exercise to the net reader to figure out an appropriate
)remedy to apply to the bimbos who cause these storms.

PRAISE?



...carasso:)

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