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From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: How do moderated groups work under c-news?
Message-ID: <1990Oct27.030424.13636@zoo.toronto.edu>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <1990Oct26.152728.15427@arnor.uucp>
Date: Sat, 27 Oct 90 03:04:24 GMT

In article <1990Oct26.152728.15427@arnor.uucp> clarke@arnor.uucp writes:
>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?

This is correct.  In general, automatic mailing of articles that did
not originate on your site is a thoroughly bad idea.  There is too
much potential for it to happen in many places at once, as a lot of
moderators have discovered.

>If true, it seems that postings to moderated groups that have not been
>approved will simply vanish as they reach C news sites...

That's right.
-- 
The type syntax for C is essentially   | Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology
unparsable.             --Rob Pike     |  henry@zoo.toronto.edu   utzoo!henry