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From: mlandau@Diamond.BBN.COM (Matt Landau)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: handling of moderated newsgroups in 2.11
Message-ID: <2476@diamond.Diamond.BBN.COM>
Date: Sun, 30-Nov-86 18:21:12 EST
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Posted: Sun Nov 30 18:21:12 1986
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Summary: fixed in patch #1 to news 2.11

In newsgroup news.software.b (article <9732@sun.uucp>), shannon@sun.uucp (Bill 
Shannon) writes:
> [Comments on how news 2.11 deals with moderation and the problems this
>  causes in setting up local moderated groups.]
>So, 2.11 wizards, what do I do?  How can I make it work like it worked
>with 2.10.3?  My first thought is to hack the LIBDIR/moderators stuff
>back into postnews and use it to get mail to local and regional moderated
>newsgroups sent to the right place, while letting inews do the work using
>mailpaths for net-wide moderated newsgroups.  Any thoughts on this?  Any
>other suggestions?

What you really do is install news 2.11 patch #1 posted to the net recently
by Rick Adams.  In the midst of many other fixes there is a fix for local
moderated groups that allows you to specify the moderator's address in
the /usr/lib/news/mailpaths file BEFORE the backbone entry.  We use this for
a couple of moderated "local" groups including X and NeWS mailing lists
and company-wide bulletin boards.  Here's our mailpaths file, by way of
example:

		bboard		bboard@vax.bbn.com
		xpert		xpert@athena.mit.edu
		xport		xport@athena.mit.edu
		news-makers	news-makers@brillig.umd.edu
		backbone	%s@seismo.css.gov
		internet	%s

Seems to work fine for us!
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