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Re: Moderated Newsgroups, Post -> Moderator

#54
From: Michael B. Smith
Date: Tue, 29 Aug 1995 11:26
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In article <1995Aug22.164221.21859@combdyn.com> lawrence@combdyn.com (Lawrence *The Dreamer* Chen) writes:
> mbs@adastra.cvl.va.us (Michael B. Smith) writes:
> >No. AmigaUUCP has no automatic support for moderated newsgroups. You
> >would need to go to C News for that.

> I think any change to support moderators in the base AmigaUUCP code, would just
> involve changes to GRN....on most systems its the job of the User Agent to post
> to moderator...the transport agent just makes sure that Approved: articles
> appear in the group....though some try to be smart and send it to the moderator
> (and send it on down stream to other sites to do the same....  Bnews?)

No sir. On most systems it is the job of "inews" to post to the moderator.
The delivery (not the transport) agent makes sure that "Approved:" headers
are present before filing articles.

VERY old versions of BNews would send the article back downstream.
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  //   Michael B. Smith
\X/    mbs@adastra.cvl.va.us
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From: mbs@adastra.cvl.va.us (Michael B. Smith)
Subject: Re: Moderated Newsgroups, Post -> Moderator
References: <flohoff.030x@dataland.owl.de> <mbs.40gk@adastra.cvl.va.us> <1995Aug22.164221.21859@combdyn.com>
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