Newsgroups: news.software.b
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: strange bounce from posting to moderated group
Message-ID: <1990Aug7.232622.11435@zoo.toronto.edu>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <1990Aug7.050533.18892@grian.cps.altadena.ca.us> <1990Aug7.072556.20840@grian.cps.altadena.ca.us> <1990Aug7.184503.24708@grian.cps.altadena.ca.us>
Date: Tue, 7 Aug 90 23:26:22 GMT

In article <1990Aug7.184503.24708@grian.cps.altadena.ca.us> liz@grian.cps.altadena.ca.us (Liz Allen-Mitchell) writes:
>I suspect the problem is that little space in the Newsgroups header
>between the newsgroups names...

Hm.  Hmmmmmmm.  At some stage, this should have been either interpreted
"correctly" or bounced, and as you found out, it does neither.  This we
will have to fix.  Geoff will have to decide how.  RFC1036 is completely
silent on the matter.

>I wonder what the fix for this is!  I could change my inews, but then
>I would cause such articles generated on other systems to bounce the
>same way...

No, under C News, inews gets run only for local articles.

>Perhaps inews should only mail unapproved aritcles that
>were not created locally?

Um, I'm not sure what you're saying here, unless you meant to leave out
that "not".  We decided, after considerable head-scratching, that it was
not a kindness for an incoming article (from another site) to be mailed
to the moderator.  Relaynews, which is what handles incoming traffic from
other sites, simply discards unapproved articles in moderated groups.  It
is inews's responsibility to do something more intelligent with local
postings to such groups.
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