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From: mrl@uai.com (Mark R. Ludwig)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: Automatic updating of $NEWSCTL/moderators
Summary: File is part of vnews newsreader
Message-ID: <1991Apr10.132810.14302@uai.com>
Date: 10 Apr 91 13:28:10 GMT
References: <1991Apr9.153347.9797@uai.com> <1991Apr9.171428.12907@zoo.toronto.edu> <3322@crdos1.crd.ge.COM>
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In-Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.COM (Wm E Davidsen Jr)

In article <3322@crdos1.crd.ge.COM>, davidsen@crdos1 (Wm E Davidsen Jr) writes:
>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.
>
>  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.

Okay, I checked the dates of the files in the directory, and it looks
like the ``moderators'' file came with one of the newsreaders my users
wanted (vnews to be precise).  Thanks for the info!  The neophyte is
learning.$$
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