I have had requests from several people as to how to enter Usenet messages in
the public newsgroups.  If you want to send point-to-point email, please see
the bulletins in conference 157.

Here is a brief summary:

You can reply to Usenet news articles like other messages.  NO SPECIAL FIELDS
ARE ABSOLUTELY REQUIRED.  Additional fields, and quoting conventions will make
it easier for people to understand your messages on usenet systems.  Now let's
take this step by step:

Definitions:
News Article=echo mail message in a public conference.
PC Board Field= The normal PC Board TO: FROM:, Subject: etc.
MESSAGE TEXT= The area where the message is written on PC Board.

Point #1 - You are not sending a message "TO" anyone.  Now PC Board will
fill in the TO: field when one type RE.  So will all the mail readers.
That's no problem - uuPCB ignores it.  That's because a usenet news
article (not a private email message, which is different) does not
include a TO: field.  No TO: field in the message as it is sent out, so
the contents of PC Board's TO: field is irrelevant and ignored.  You
could put anything you want in there (PC Board's TO: field) and it wouldn't
matter. DO NOT put TO: in the MESSAGE TEXT.

Point #2 - You *MUST* answer "Y"es to the "Echo ?" query.  uuPCB assumes
that a message that has ECHO=N is a message that is not intended to be
sent out.

Under no circumstances do you need to enter a FROM: field.  uuPCB does that
automatically.  It turns PC Board's "FROM: JOHN DOE" into

From: john.doe@ehbbs.com (John Doe)

Now there are some extra things you can do to make things nicer, but the reply
will still go out even if you don't do them.

First, when quoting.  Since there is no "TO:" field in a message, it is
considered polite to name the person you are quoting, for example:

In article, Mike Morrell (mike.morrell@fleet.com) wrote:
-> conferences. That is the usual To:, Fr;, Subject; etc...is this any clearer
-> now?? I think you product is good and works but you

Secondly, you CAN, but you do not HAVE TO put a Subject: line in your message
text.  The reason you would want to do this is to preserve the original subject
that came from Usenet.  PC Board only allows 25 upper case characters.  Usenet
uses mixed case and one full line (which can be more than 80 characters in some
cases).

So, if the original Usenet message had a subject of:

Subject: Space Aliens have transplanted my brain into Elvis's body.

You would get the first 25 characters in PC Board's message field:
i.e.,
SUBJECT: SPACE ALIENS HAVE TRANSPL

Sooo... if you want to preserve the idea of Elvis (and of course, we all do),
make sure you quote the entire subject line.  Fortunately, PC Board provides a
message quoting facility.  The only problem is that when you type CONTROL-O in
the full screen editor, you get a "->" put in front of each line.  You need to
edit it out so that "Subject:" is in column 1.

In other words, change:
->Subject: Space Aliens have transplanted (etc...)
to
Subject: Space Aliens have transplanted (etc...)

So, that's how you reply.  In short, it can be just like any other message.
That will do.  You can enhance it with quoting and Subject: lines.  You don't
need a TO: or a FROM:.  All the other stuff you see in messages is added
automatically by uuPCB.