Newsgroups: news.software.b
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Moderated local newsgroups
Message-ID: <1990Nov28.042050.18744@zoo.toronto.edu>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <1990Nov27.160036.6577@ssd.kodak.com>
Date: Wed, 28 Nov 90 04:20:50 GMT

In article <1990Nov27.160036.6577@ssd.kodak.com> dcox@ssd.kodak.com (Don Cox (253-7121)) writes:
>... I was wondering if there is any way that I can make a local newsgroup
>moderated?  What is involved in sending all of the postings to this
>particular newsgroup to a local moderator, who then decides what should
>and shouldn't be posted?  How is the moderator defined?

Making a local group moderated just means putting "m" in the fourth field
of the active-file entry for that group.  Then you need an entry in the
"mailpaths" control file specifying where to send postings in that group;
for example, this

foo,bar	postmaster

says to send any postings to groups foo or bar to postmaster.  That defines
the moderator.  He/she then needs to prepare postings with an appropriate
Approved: header; see RFC1036.
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"The average pointer, statistically,    |Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology
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