Xref: utzoo news.admin:10884 news.software.b:6069 Newsgroups: news.admin,news.software.b Path: utzoo!henry From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) Subject: Re: C News drops unapproved postings(was: comp.newprod - moderated/unmoderated??) Message-ID: <1990Oct28.030836.8948@zoo.toronto.edu> Organization: U of Toronto Zoology References: <454@tygra.ddmi.com> <89668@aerospace.AERO.ORG> <1990Oct26.165109.29072@zoo.toronto.edu> <1990Oct28.002345.11093@vicom.com> Date: Sun, 28 Oct 90 03:08:36 GMT In article <1990Oct28.002345.11093@vicom.com> lmb@vicom.com (Larry Blair) writes: >=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? The problem with *any* scheme involving automatic mail sending from a remote site is that a simple mistake can deluge an innocent user -- often not the person responsible for the foulup -- with mail from everywhere. A better solution *would* be nice. -- The type syntax for C is essentially | Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology unparsable. --Rob Pike | henry@zoo.toronto.edu utzoo!henry