Xref: utzoo news.admin:10970 news.software.b:6097 Path: utzoo!utstat!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!grian!liz From: liz@grian.cps.altadena.ca.us (Liz Allen) Newsgroups: news.admin,news.software.b Subject: Re: C News drops unapproved postings(was: comp.newprod - moderated/unmoderated??) Message-ID: <1990Oct31.205604.23731@grian.cps.altadena.ca.us> Date: 31 Oct 90 20:56:04 GMT References: <454@tygra.ddmi.com> <89668@aerospace.AERO.ORG> <1990Oct26.165109.29072@zoo.toronto.edu> <1990Oct28.002345.11093@vicom.com> Organization: College Park Software, Altadena, CA Lines: 18 lmb@vicom.com (Larry Blair) writes: >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? I gave this some thought after having some problems on grian. I think the best approach is to look at the length of the path and mail articles only if it is short -- say less than 1-2 hosts. This would limit the number of forwarded articles while insuring that at least one copy got out. -- - Liz Allen liz@grian.cps.altadena.ca.us ames!elroy!grian!liz "God is light; in him there is no darkness at all." -- 1 John 1:5b