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From: spain@mdcbbs.com
Newsgroups: news.software.anu-news
Subject: RE: My moderated newsgroups reject new newsitems
Message-ID: <664.25b89cd2@mdcbbs.com>
Date: 20 Jan 90 17:16:01 GMT
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Organization: McDonnell Douglas M&E, Cypress CA
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> The most probable cause for something is that you have a group set as
> moderated when it is not actually a moderated group.  You should get a
> copy of the monthly (sort of) checkgroups posting and run it through
> NEWS to make sure you are current.  It is posted to news.admin by Gene
> Spafford.

This is good advice!  I sent mail to Gene (net.god) Spafford :-) asking for the
"official" list.  Gene gave me the list and pointed me to NEWS.GROUPS which has
this information posted periodically.  I gave up on NEWS.GROUPS a while back
due to the noise but apparently some of that "noise" is *very* important!

I made sure to SET NEWSGROUP * /NOMODER and then CAREFULLY set each moderated
newsgroup properly.  Things are starting to settle down.  If I get a reject to
any of my moderated newsgroup (I check the RNEWS log files regularly now), I
will trace back the newsitem to the orginator.

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