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In article <1992Nov2.133232.1027@beckman.com>, dsroberts@beckman.com writes:
>> Don, creating a moderated group is a little more work, and takes a little
>> longer, because I have to coordinate with Gene Spafford. Please send me the
>> address that will be used to submit articles, and "administrative" address
>> that will reach the moderator, and the moderator's actual name. 
>
>Having only dealt with adding moderated newsgroups to my news server, I really
>have no idea what is involved with setting up a moderated newsgroup.  Is it
>normal to have a different address for submitting articles than an
>administrative address, and if so, what is the nature of the difference?

Typically, there are 2 different addresses. One is for sending articles, and one
is for traffic about the group, but not submitted to the group. In practical
terms, the submission address is generally an alias rather than a person's email
address, so that it can be easily redirected, e.g. to a fill-in moderator while
the moderator is away, of upon a change of moderator. This is the address that
will actually be used for the net-wide moderator alias. 

The administrative, or request, address should go to the person responsible for
the group. This is almost always the moderator, but, for instance, it probably
wouldn't be reassigned when the moderator went on vaction. One reason for making
these separate is that the moderator can more easily distinguish submissions to
the group from articles not meant to be submitted. 

Mailing list conventions are often used. For example, the submission address
might be:

dsjournal@eisner.decus.org

whereas the administrative address might be

dsjournal-request@eisner.decus.org

These would also be convenient if you decided to set up a mailing list as an
alternate mechanism, as these would be appropriate conventions. It is also
reasonable to use the moderator's actual email address for the administrative
address.

Quite frankly, spaf is the one who wants this info, and these are really my
guesses as to what the info means to him, but we have to provide it to get the
aliases set up. :-)

>*Joel is DECUS managing editor of the now defunct newsletters.  He has now
>initiated a project to resurrect a more viable newsletter.  He has asked to
>use
>DECUServe resources as the development platform for the new newsletter, and
>we've agreed to support this.

I've also told him VMSnet would be interested in working with him, as
appropriate. And I've also sent mail to Larry Snyder regarding the PageSwapper,
as there is no question but that it is relevant to VMSnet! I just got my last
issue of the newsletter yesterday. *sniff*
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