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From: usenet@cps3xx.UUCP (Usenet file owner)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: moderated local groups?
Message-ID: <4345@cps3xx.UUCP>
Date: 28 Aug 89 21:30:40 GMT
Reply-To: jaksa@cpswh.cps.msu.edu (Rob Jaksa)
Organization: Dept. of Computer Science, Michigan State University
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I would like to create a local group that is moderated (such as
local.announce).  I asked our news expert and he did not see how
to do it.  Is there any way to do it?  This was his response:

>I created the newsgroups you requested.  I don't
>know how (and looking at the source it doesn't
>seem possible) to create a moderated, local newsgroup.
>I know this seems quite odd, but all the experiments
>I tried didn't work.  Making it moderated in the 
>active file means the letter gets sent off to
>your "backbone" site, as defined in the mailpaths
>file.  Thus a posting to local.cps.announce went off
>to frith!uunet!local-cps-announce, where it will
>certainly bounce.  The syntax of the mailpaths file
>doesn't seem to allow you to specify different behavior
>for local groups.

>When I tried putting a "no posting to this group" line
>in the active file then nobody can post.

>I would suggest posting a question on how to make a
>local, moderated group to something like news.admin,
>or one of those type groups.

Thanks much,
Rob Jaksa

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