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From: greg@ncr-sd.UUCP (Greg Noel)
Newsgroups: net.news.b
Subject: Re: Proposed new mechanism for posting to moderated groups
Message-ID: <416@ncr-sd.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 20-Feb-86 17:47:33 EST
Article-I.D.: ncr-sd.416
Posted: Thu Feb 20 17:47:33 1986
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In article <675@oliveb.UUCP> jerry@oliveb.UUCP (Jerry Aguirre) writes:
>What I would suggest is that, for each moderated group, a companion "to"
>group be created.  Thus a posting to "mod.sources" would be automatically
>redirected into "to.mod.sources".  Each site would then have a special entry
>in its "sys" file that said where to send "to.mod" articles.

This is a very interesting idea, and on the surface seems to solve a lot of
the problems with moderated groups and mailing lists.  It may be that there
have to be some restrictions on access to the to.mod groups so that, for
example, people wouldn't subscribe to them, but I think the idea is worth a
test.  I propose that one (or more?) of the mod groups try out this mechanism.
The entries in the active file would have to be hand-crafted and it probably
would be impossible to get complete compliance, but if the backbone sites and
contributing sites were to set this up, the method of submission could be
advertised in the group itself and give us a chance to evaluate it.

I wonder if a similar mechanism would work for mailing list submissions, with
groups named to.mail.all.  I am in the process of setting up a mailing list
and the idea of using something like this intrigues me.......
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-- Greg Noel, NCR Rancho Bernardo    Greg@ncr-sd.UUCP or Greg@nosc.ARPA