something odd when replying to newsgroup.

[geopelia]

A post I tried to reply to in another newsgroup showed it was sent to
certain newsgroups.
But when I clicked Reply Group, other different groups were shown.

I could always delete them and replace with the original groups, but why
would this happen?
Very odd.

[~misfit~]

Hi Geo,

That usually happens because some devious person has set the 'reply to'
field in the message to a different group than the group the post sent to.
(There are a few settings like this that most of us never bother with or
don't even know exist - You're doing the right thing in my opinion.)

Best,
--
/Shaun.

"Humans will have advanced a long, long, way when religious belief has a
cozy little classification in the DSM."
David Melville (in r.a.s.f1)

[geopelia]

"~misfit~" <shaun.at...@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:kpduoe$jt3$1...@dont-email.me...

> Somewhere on teh intarwebs geopelia wrote:
>> A post I tried to reply to in another newsgroup showed it was sent to
>> certain newsgroups.
>> But when I clicked Reply Group, other different groups were shown.
>>
>> I could always delete them and replace with the original groups, but
>> why would this happen?
>> Very odd.
>
> Hi Geo,
>
> That usually happens because some devious person has set the 'reply to'
> field in the message to a different group than the group the post sent to.
> (There are a few settings like this that most of us never bother with or
> don't even know exist - You're doing the right thing in my opinion.)
>

Thank you.
I usually cut out all the groups in my reply except the one I am using.
I get an error message if there are too many groups.

Some people post to very odd groups! Good for a laugh sometimes though.