On 2010-09-08, J. Roeleveld <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Wednesday 08 September 2010 02:27:16 Gregory Shearman wrote:
>> In linux.gentoo.user, you wrote:
>> >> I'm reading your message via a usenet server. linux.gentoo.user is the
>> >> newsgroup. Replies of course go via the mailing list address.
>> > 
>> > Is that seamless? Can you directly reply to a posting? Easy to set up?
>> > How?
>> 
>> More or less. Instead of press "f" to reply in slrn I press "r" and slrn
>> starts up Mutt and my favourite text editor.
>
> Which seems more logical to me.
> "R" for "Reply"
> What does the "F" stand for, if not for "Forward"?

Followup.  In traditional news parlance, one doesn't reply to a
news posting, one posts a followup article.

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