Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!wuarchive!kuhub.cc.ukans.edu!anu-news!list From: munnari!csc.anu.oz.au!gih900@UUNET.UU.NET (Geoff Huston) Newsgroups: news.software.anu-news Subject: RE: My moderated newsgroups reject new newsitems Message-ID: <9001151008.AA03861@uunet.uu.net> Date: 16 Jan 90 01:44:04 GMT Sender: ANU-NEWS Discussion Reply-To: Geoff Huston Lines: 43 >I'm having some problems since I changed the appropriate newsgroups over to >moderated. My news feed can no longer post newsitems into the group. > >I figured that NEWSMANAGER would have the ability to post into a moderated >newsgroup. I tried adding NEWSMGR (the username used for NEWSSKIM) in as a >member with SUPERVISOR privs but so far no luck. There are two possible situations you are referring to: a) the newsgroup is moderated, and the incoming feed cannot be added into that newsgroup. This is somewhat unusual, unless you are unique in think that the particular newsgroup is moderated, as NEWS will, by default, be expecting an Approved: header on all incoming news items posted into moderated newsgroups. The compile-time constant is: UNAPPROVED_NEWS the values this can be defined to be (in NEWSSITE.H) are: DISCARD the default - if not approved then throw it away ACCEPT accept it anyway (not very smart as the sites which the local node is feeding may themselvesd discard it as the posting is not the real thing without the Approved: header MAIL_TO_MODERATOR As it is not approved, then the moderator should in theory approve it - so mail the item to the moderator instead of accepting. This is about the worst option- the responsibility of mailing to a newsgroup moderator is that of the original posting agent - other sites who mail off to the moderator are the cause of junk mail. b) you are the moderator of the newsgroup in question, and you are attempting to use the ADD command to post Approved: items into NEWS for distribution, in which case the command ADD FILE/MODERATE is intended to do the job. cheers, Geoff Huston