Xref: utzoo news.admin:10883 news.software.b:6068 Path: utzoo!utstat!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!umich!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!mips!wyse!vsi1!lmb From: lmb@vicom.com (Larry Blair) Newsgroups: news.admin,news.software.b Subject: C News drops unapproved postings(was: comp.newprod - moderated/unmoderated??) Message-ID: <1990Oct28.002345.11093@vicom.com> Date: 28 Oct 90 00:23:45 GMT References: <454@tygra.ddmi.com> <89668@aerospace.AERO.ORG> <1990Oct26.165109.29072@zoo.toronto.edu> Organization: Vicom Systems Inc., Fremont, CA Lines: 19 In article <1990Oct26.165109.29072@zoo.toronto.edu> henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes: =In article <89668@aerospace.AERO.ORG> obrien@aero.aero.org (Michael O'Brien) writes: =>There is only one set of meaningful questions to be asked: What happens =>when one site marks a group as unmoderated and feeds articles to a site =>that has it marked as moderated? Do such messages become accepted, and =>fed to the remainder of the net? What happens under B News? C News? = =Under C News, the message is dropped on the floor, with a log message. =I believe B News attempts to mail it to the moderator, a behavior which =has not endeared itself to moderators. While I have sympathy for moderators, I'm not entirely happy with the C News approach. If a site has a group set wrong, which is easy nowadays, and all of their connections use C News, postings will disappear silently. Perhaps there is a better solution. One could be to mail a warning to the poster. Any other ideas? -- Larry Blair ames!vsi1!lmb lmb@vicom.com