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From: ron@brl-sem.ARPA (Ron Natalie <ron>)
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Subject: Re: What happens when posting to the new mod.* groups
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Date: Tue, 19-Nov-85 07:01:29 EST
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Posted: Tue Nov 19 07:01:29 1985
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> I kept seeing edicts to the effect that DARPA actually required these list
> to be moderated, but I didn't really worry too much until recently, when I
> discovered that the USENET's idea of the 'moderator' of the list was 
> info-applebus@cmu-cs-c rather than info-applebus-request@cmu-cs-c.

There is nothing that says an ARPANET mailing list needs to moderated.
Most of them aren't.  The problem was that everybody's USENET news code
was broken with respect to fa.* groups so a kludge was done with the mod.*
groups.  There are still quite a few groups that are automatically forwarded
into ARPANET.  Net.micro <-> INFO-MICRO, net.unix-wizards <-> UNIX-WIZARDS,
and net.unix <-> INFO-UNIX, etc...

> 
> (In my view this is incorrect, but I have since made 'info-applebus' indirect
> through me rather than the distribution list, so go right on posting to 
> mod.protocols.appletalk.  Other lists will have to live with 'inappropriate
> postings' or install moderation as well.
> 
Or they will just turn off the USENET gateway.  Please exercise some
restraint.

-Ron