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From: ambar@athena.mit.edu (Jean Marie Diaz)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: posting to multiple groups/mailing to moderator
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Date: 27 Jun 91 16:41:37 GMT
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   From: george@cis.ohio-state.edu (George M. Jones)
   Date: 27 Jun 91 14:49:55 GMT

   This is realy a news.software.c question, but since that group does not 
   exist...

Actually, B News behaves the same way, so it's irrelevant.

   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.

There are only two possible things to do here:

1) send the posting to the moderator and let hir post it to all the
groups mentioned, or

2) actually post the article to the unmoderated groups and send a copy
to the moderator, who will post it separately to the moderated group.
This loses because people who subscribe to the moderated group and any
other group the posting went to will see it twice.

The "bug" is that Pnews does not warn the user about the behaviour of
postings made to both moderated and unmoderated groups.  inews is fine.

				AMBAR