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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: <2546@slate.Diamond.BBN.COM>
Date: Mon, 1-Dec-86 22:35:39 EST
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Posted: Mon Dec  1 22:35:39 1986
Date-Received: Tue, 2-Dec-86 02:44:51 EST
References: <9732@sun.uucp> <2476@diamond.Diamond.BBN.COM> <9780@sun.uucp>
Reply-To: mlandau@Diamond.BBN.COM (Matt Landau)
Organization: BBN Laboratories, Inc., Cambridge, MA
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Summary: More on how to do local moderated groups - important info!

In news.software.b (article <9780@sun.uucp>), shannon@sun.uucp (Bill Shannon) 
writes:
>> 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 ....
>
>I installed patch #1 as soon as I got it, before installing 2.11.  I guess
>I missed the one line in the middle of all those bugs that were fixed that
>said:
>
>        There was no way to have moderated local groups.
>
>Of course, that's hardly documentation on how to have moderated local
>groups.  

Well, to tell you the truth, the only way I knew about this is that I
wrote to Rick Adams and asked him how to do local moderated groups, 
and he sent me the patch about a week before it hit the net, along
with instructions.

NOTE: You *also* have to patch recnews (if you're using it to send mail
into a local moderated group) to call inews with the -a flag and an
approved-by address, or inews will reject the submission and try to mail
it back to the moderator, causing terrible loops in your mail system!
This should be fixed "officially" in some future patch, but you'd 
better make the fix yourself before trying to use local moderated
groups!
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