Subj : Re: NNTP and To: field
To   : POINDEXTER FORTRAN
From : Dumas Walker
Date : Fri Nov 07 2025 01:15 pm

>  > If a recipient isn't found, "All" seems like a sensible default. Are
>  > you saying the failure to find a recipient is a bug? Feel free to
>  > play with it and offer up a patch if you have one.

>  ne> I like the Synchronet "You touch it, you own it" model :)

> I thought NNTP didn't have a to: field?

In the early 1990s when I first started using Usenet, IIRC just about every
(if not all) messages ported over to my BBS were "To: All" and responses
from the BBS side, while showing a To: receipient locally, were posted to
usenet as if "To: All."

Now, most of the messages that come across the Usenet gates have a
receipient listed.  Very few replies still come across as "To: All."

Not sure if that answers you question or not.  ;)


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