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From: davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.COM (Wm E Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: Automatic updating of $NEWSCTL/moderators
Message-ID: <3322@crdos1.crd.ge.COM>
Date: 9 Apr 91 18:51:05 GMT
References: <1991Apr9.153347.9797@uai.com> <1991Apr9.171428.12907@zoo.toronto.edu>
Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.com (bill davidsen)
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In article <1991Apr9.171428.12907@zoo.toronto.edu> henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes:

| Nope.  In fact, I'm not sure precisely what you're thinking of; there is
| no NEWSCTL/moderators file supported in C News at all.  If you're thinking
| of NEWSCTL/mailpaths, that necessarily has to be updated manually because
| its contents are mailer-dependent.

  But when you see the postings you can write an awk script (or sed,
perl, whatever) to reparse it.

  What I do is to store the posting, then have cron run a makefile which
runs the script, saves the corrected form, and builds the new mailpaths
file from the various parts, some of which are local groups, like the
starix and capdist hierarchies.

  There used to be a moderators file, I know it was used for something,
I've got files by that name on some old news machines.
-- 
bill davidsen	(davidsen@crdos1.crd.GE.COM -or- uunet!crdgw1!crdos1!davidsen)
        "Most of the VAX instructions are in microcode,
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