Newsgroups: news.sysadmin
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Local and Moderated Group Admin
Message-ID: <1989Oct25.162530.28911@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <1989Oct23.153052.12125@ccu.umanitoba.ca>
Date: Wed, 25 Oct 89 16:25:30 GMT

In article <1989Oct23.153052.12125@ccu.umanitoba.ca> mills@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Gary Mills) writes:
>... I have set up one local group with an infinite
>expiry date for posting announcements and information...

I assume you mean a very long expiry date, since C News expire doesn't
support infinite expiry yet.  (It will; I just never thought of it until
it was suggested to me recently.)

>...Is there an official way I
>can cancel articles posted by others when they are no longer relevant?

Not at present.  It's actually a slightly tricky problem.  I may have to
add something to expire to make such things possible; there are several
cases where it would be useful.

>If I convert the group to moderated, C-news will mail postings to the
>moderator.  How does the moderator go about posting them?  I could not
>find any way to give the moderator this authority.

The requirement is that a legitimate posting to a moderated group have
an "Approved" header.  Check out "inews -a".
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