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Re: INN - Moderated News Group
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (James Fidell)
Tue Nov 5 17:18:41 1996
From: James Fidell <james@corp.netcom.net.uk>
To: redhat-list@redhat.com
Date: Tue, 5 Nov 1996 22:16:22 +0000 (GMT)
Cc: l-inn@oncomdis.on.ca
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.91.961105161426.13930B-100000@snappy.smithphoto.com> from "Mitchell Leben" at Nov 5, 96 04:23:17 pm
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Mitchell Leben wrote:
> I have a few questions about moderated news groups. The following was
> sent to the news account:
>
> -------------
> To: news@smithphoto.com
> Subject: newgroup alt.fan.rosieodonnell m tknab@nyx.net
>
> tknab@nyx.net requested that alt.fan.rosieodonnell be made moderated.
> To do this, type the following:
> /usr/lib/news/bin/ctlinnd newgroup alt.fan.rosieodonnell m tknab@nyx.net
>
> {path stuff snipped}
>
> Moderator contact address: tknab@nyx.net
> Group submission address: knabbie@execpc.com
> ---------------------
>
> What exactly will this do? I assume all posts from my users will first be
> sent to the moderator for consideration. What happens if I don't make the
> suggested change above? Will the posts still get out to the net? I am
> particularly interested in this newsgroup because one of my users
> specifically requested it.
Your users' posts will only be sent to the moderator if the "moderators"
file is correctly set up.
If you don't make the newsgroup moderated and others do, then postings
from your site will be dropped by those sites that have the group marked
as moderated unless they contain an Approved: header.
James.
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