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From: kre@munnari.oz (Robert Elz)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: handling of moderated newsgroups in 2.11
Message-ID: <1354@munnari.oz>
Date: Wed, 3-Dec-86 18:34:43 EST
Article-I.D.: munnari.1354
Posted: Wed Dec  3 18:34:43 1986
Date-Received: Wed, 3-Dec-86 23:21:24 EST
References: <9732@sun.uucp> <2476@diamond.Diamond.BBN.COM> <9781@sun.uucp>
Organization: Comp Sci, Melbourne Uni, Australia
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Summary: I'm baffled, what's the point?

In article <9781@sun.uucp>, shannon@sun.uucp (Bill Shannon) writes:
> Our local moderated groups are fed by a mail alias that uses recnews.
> There is no real moderator in the loop.

Huh?  Why?  If there's no moderator, how can this group possibly
be a moderated group.

I guess what you really mean is that you want to force people to
mail things to the group list, rather than just posting them,
but again, why?

The only possible explanation I can think of is that you have
some people who want to treat the group as a mailing list,
getting info from it by mail, and replying by mail, and others
that want to treat it as a newsgroup.

An easy way to do that is ..  (assuming your group is sun.bugs so
I have a concrete name)

In the sys file

SunBugs:world,sun.bugs::mail SunBugsList

In your aliases file

SunBugs: SunBugsList, "|recnews sun.bugs"
SunBugsList: user1, user2, ...

If you do this, people can mail to SunBugs, or post to sun.bugs
and everyone who's supposed to get a mail copy will, and the news
will be available as well.

Please, DON'T "fix" recnews to add approved headers.  "Approved"
should mean "approved by the responsible human", not "mailed
to a magic address".

Robert Elz			kre@munnari.oz

ps: for those who care, precisely this kind of change is going to
happen to the "mod" groups that really aren't moderated (like
mod.computers.vax, and others).