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From: ralphw@ius2.cs.cmu.edu (Ralph Hyre)
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Subject: Re: Posting to a mod group FOR the moderator
Message-ID: <273@ius2.cs.cmu.edu>
Date: Tue, 10-Dec-85 14:50:37 EST
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In article <344@brl-tgr.ARPA> wmartin@brl-tgr.ARPA (Will Martin ) writes:
>Is there any way for me to do this, or, if not, what should I tell the
>moderator that HE can do?
>
In my case (as mod.protocols.appletalk moderator), there is an address that
I can send to at berkeley that will distribute to mod.protocols.appletalk.

>does this mean that I can mail these Digests to "arms-d@ucbvax" and they
>will get fed into the moderated group? That seems unlikely -- if so,
>anyone could do a similar action and illegitimately post to any
>ARPA-feed "mod" group. There must be another, less obvious, method.

In theory all you would need to do is send to this address, but Eric may have
hacked the forwarding to accept mail from the moderator only.  In any case,
if someone does do this, their identity will presumably be disclosed in the
message and punitive action can be taken.  (This is sort of like the case of
the Chicago radio pirate who takes over commercial stations by taking control
of their studio-transmitter link (see net.ham-radio for details))