Why do you replies keep going to "ALL"? They should be addressed to the person you're responding to. The way they are coming in now, they would never show up on a personal mail scan, and (not sure about this) probably also break the message thread.
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Hey Geri,

Good catch -- sorry about that. Our NNTP gateway was posting
without the proper "To:" field. We're fixing that on our end.

Thanks for pointing it out, appreciate the heads up.

Philippe

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Hey Pgauthier!

On Wed, Apr 08 2026 15:04:43 -0500, you wrote:

Good catch -- sorry about that. Our NNTP gateway was posting without
the proper "To:" field. We're fixing that on our end.

Thanks for pointing it out, appreciate the heads up.

FYI, if you're using Mystic's NNTP server, you may not be able to change that.

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Might as well also let you know that you seem to be sending two tearlines, and two origin lines (there should only be one of each per message).

Are you manually adding a tearline/origin line in your NNTP client? Mystic will automatically append the tearline/origin line to an echomail message, and you can change "New Mystic BBS" to "PhotoRM BBS" in Mystic's configuration, also.

Regards,
Nick

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Re: Re: Your replies
By: Geri Atricks to pgauthier on Wed Apr 08 2026 11:19 am

Why do you replies keep going to "ALL"? They should be addressed to the person you're responding to.

If someone is using a newsgroup (NNTP) client to read & post messages, their messages are often posted to "All", even when they're replying to a message.

Nightfox
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Hello Nightfox!

09 Apr 26 09:16, you wrote to Geri Atricks:

Why do you replies keep going to "ALL"? They should be addressed
to the person you're responding to.

If someone is using a newsgroup (NNTP) client to read & post messages, their messages are often posted to "All", even when they're replying
to a message.

Good NNTP clients (such as tin) append the X-Comment-To header, so the messages are posted with a proper "To:" field.

Jegor

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Hey Jegor!

On Thu, Apr 09 2026 11:48:25 -0500, you wrote:

Good NNTP clients (such as tin) append the X-Comment-To header, so
the messages are posted with a proper "To:" field.

I've used both tin and slrn for awhile now. I keep going back to slrn over tin, though. Either way, slrn supports this also.

I'm guessing it's moreso Windows clients that are more difficult to do the same thing (except maybe Claws Mail). Even with Thunderbird (which is what I use) you have to edit your config to add an option for "X-Comment-To" so it appears in your ">>" dropdown menu, then selecting it and filling in the blank, typing in the name you are writing to (ie: way too time consuming when just trying to reply to a message).

Good thing Synchronet can be set to do this for you, otherwise I wouldn't be using Thunderbird right now. ;)

Regards,
Nick

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Hello Nightfox!

09 Apr 26 09:16, you wrote to Geri Atricks:

Why do you replies keep going to "ALL"? They should be addressed to GA>> the person you're responding to.

If someone is using a newsgroup (NNTP) client to read & post

messages,

their messages are often posted to "All", even when they're replying to a message.

Good NNTP clients (such as tin) append the X-Comment-To header, so the messages are posted with a proper "To:" field.

Yeah, but if the News Server is a BBS, it'll probably default to ALL.

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Hey Shurato!

On Thu, Apr 09 2026 15:19:00 -0500, you wrote:

Yeah, but if the News Server is a BBS, it'll probably default to
ALL.

While you're probably correct for /most/ BBS softwares. Synchronet specifically handles this just fine, thanks to Rob's ingenuity. ;)

However, anything that does default to "All" (whether it be a BBS or not; moreso actual NNTP servers because sending to "All" may even be the standard) just requires you to manually intervene by stuffing an "X-Comment-To" header into the message with whatever NNTP client you're using.

Regards,
Nick

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* In a message originally to Shurato, Accession said:

Gecko/20100101Thunderbird/140.9.1 Hey Shurato!

On Thu, Apr 09 2026 15:19:00 -0500, you wrote:

Yeah, but if the News Server is a BBS, it'll probably default to ALL.

While you're probably correct for /most/ BBS softwares. Synchronet specifically handles this just fine, thanks to Rob's ingenuity. ;)

However, anything that does default to "All" (whether it be a BBS or not; moreso actual NNTP servers because sending to "All" may even be the standard) just requires you to manually intervene by stuffing an "X-Comment-To" header into the message with whatever NNTP client you're using.

I'm pretty sure if it's a BBS any headers will be totally ignored. At least with Ele, which last had it's source code edited in 2013...

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Hey Shurato!

On Fri, Apr 10 2026 17:23:00 -0500, you wrote:

I'm pretty sure if it's a BBS any headers will be totally ignored.
At least with Ele, which last had it's source code edited in 2013...

If you're referring to "Ele" specifically, then sure that could very well be so. I've never used it, nor do I have any interest in it. I see any and all headers just fine with Thunderbird (or any NNTP client I want to use) and Synchronet, though. Fairly certain Mystic handles most of that as well, except for stuffing an X-Comment-To field.

2013 is 13 years ago, though. Just in case you didn't think it was very long ago. :)

Regards,
Nick

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* In a message originally to Shurato, Accession said:

Gecko/20100101Thunderbird/140.9.1 Hey Shurato!

On Fri, Apr 10 2026 17:23:00 -0500, you wrote:

I'm pretty sure if it's a BBS any headers will be totally ignored. At least with Ele, which last had it's source code edited in 2013...

If you're referring to "Ele" specifically, then sure that could very well
be so. I've never used it, nor do I have any interest in it. I see any and all headers just fine with Thunderbird (or any NNTP client I want to use) and Synchronet, though. Fairly certain Mystic handles most of that as
well, except for stuffing an X-Comment-To field.

2013 is 13 years ago, though. Just in case you didn't think it was very
long ago. :)

No, I think that's a hell of a long time ago. If I could code, and could figure out how to compile this (neither of which I'm capable of), I would
have tackled this a long time ago as well!

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