Newsgroups: news.software.b
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: posting to multiple groups/mailing to moderator
Message-ID: <1991Jun27.163707.20373@zoo.toronto.edu>
Date: Thu, 27 Jun 1991 16:37:07 GMT
References: <1991Jun27.144955.25189@cis.ohio-state.edu>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology

In article <1991Jun27.144955.25189@cis.ohio-state.edu> george@cis.ohio-state.edu (George M. Jones) writes:
>A user at our site just reported a "bug in Pnews".  Turns out he had posted
>a note to a long list of groups, one of which was moderated.  inews
>simply mailed the article to the moderator of the moderated group without
>posting to the unmoderated group.  Is this a bug or a feature ?  I'd tend
>towards calling it a bug, since he posted to unmoderated groups and it
>failed to show up and he got no diagnostic.

This is a feature.  Inews does attempt to produce a message saying it is
mailing to the moderator; he may have overlooked that or Pnews may have
eaten it.  If moderated groups are to have any meaning, anything in them,
including cross-postings, needs moderator approval, and there is no way
to retroactively add a group to an already-posted article, so anything
(cross-)posted to a moderated group goes to the moderator.
-- 
"We're thinking about upgrading from    | Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
SunOS 4.1.1 to SunOS 3.5."              |  henry@zoo.toronto.edu  utzoo!henry