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From: clarke@arnor.uucp
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Subject: How do moderated groups work under c-news?
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Date: 26 Oct 90 15:27:28 GMT
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As a result of the ddmi.com flamefest, I started looking at the c-news
software to see exactly what would happen if someone changed all the
moderated groups to unmoderated status on his own machine.  A quick
scan of the doc/notebook/man pages doesn't give any answers.

A quick scan of relaynews source seems to indicate that un-approved 
messages to a moderated group will be flushed and not passed on.  The
only place that mailpaths seems to be used is by the inews shell
script.  Is this correct?

If true, it seems that postings to moderated groups that have not been
approved will simply vanish as they reach C news sites.  I never did
see the comp.newprod message that started all this.