🚀 go-pugleaf

rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert) writes:
>yountm@...!asuvax!gtephx (Marvin Yount) writes:
>>We're trying to set up a local newsgroup but we would like to make it
>>moderated so that only one individual can post to it.  Our first attempt
>
>  Start by fixing your host name and reply address.

Agreed. That's gotta be a candidate for worst-offender-of-the-month.

>  What you have at present is total garbage.  You aren't going to get much
>help this way.
>
>>From: yountm@...!asuvax!gtephx (Marvin Yount)
>>Message-ID: <1991Jun7.232904.804@...!asuvax!gtephx>

Be a little more forgiving...
Take a look at the file /usr/lib/news/mailpaths. If your group a.b.c should
be moderated, and the moderator is "mod-man" at your site, insert this line
at the top of that file:
a.b.c<TAB>mod-man

That's all it takes. (BTW, I don't know if this is documented. I seem to recall
the documentation saying that you only need to touch this file if you're a
backbone, in which case you allready know what to do. But I may be mistaken.
If I'm correct, it's not very helpful and should be changed...)

The "%s" that you see on the last line stands for x-y-z, for any given group
x.y.z which is moderated. So if you had a whole collection of local moderated
groups, and you wanted the mailing address of those groups to correspond to
their names, you could do something like this:
local.mod.all<TAB>%s

...assuming all the groups were in the local.mod part of your news hierarchy.
At panix we gateway several mailing lists into newsgroups named
panix.mlist.whatever. If you have several machines all using these groups,
all the machines except the moderator's would have
local.mod.all<TAB>mod-host!%s
in their mailpaths file where mod-host is the moderator's machine.

Good luck (and fix those headers!!!)
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Alexis Rosen
Owner/Sysadmin, PANIX Public Access Unix, NY
alexis@panix.com
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