Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!apple!amdahl!kelly From: kelly@uts.amdahl.com (Kelly Goen) Newsgroups: news.admin Subject: Re: moderated newsgroup with no moderator address Message-ID: Date: 20 Jan 90 13:53:15 GMT References: <22310@usc.edu> <3021@netxcom.DHL.COM> Reply-To: kelly@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com (Kelly Goen) Organization: Amdahl Corporation, Sunnyvale CA Lines: 21 In article bob@MorningStar.Com (Bob Sutterfield) writes: >In article <3021@netxcom.DHL.COM> stewart@netxcom.DHL.COM (John Stewart) writes: > In article <22310@usc.edu> blackcat@neuro.usc.edu writes: > This is supposed to be trivial ... but, when your newsgroup is > marked as moderated ... but there is no moderator address ... > and everyone posting to the newsgroup is supposed to be able to > approve their articles (providing they can figure out how to do > it) ... how does one approve their own articles? > > DON'T APPROVE YOUR OWN ARTICLES -- unless you want to be flamed to > a crisp. :-) > >I think blackcat's question was in reference to alt.hackers, where the >posting procedure is slightly different (and perhaps a bit more >difficult to figure out) than the procedure for most moderated groups. > >The folks who created alt.hackers thought it would be a cute idea. And indeed it is cute...for the uninformed somewhat confusing I imagine cheers kelly