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From: emigh@ecsvax.UUCP (Ted Emigh)
Newsgroups: news.admin,news.software.b
Subject: Re: Problem with moderated news handling
Message-ID: <3187@ecsvax.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 21-May-87 00:07:32 EDT
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Posted: Thu May 21 00:07:32 1987
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In article <2529@ncoast.UUCP> allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon S. Allbery) writes:
>The "feature" that causes postings to moderated newsgroups to be mailed to
>the moderator but not cross-posted in unmoderated newsgroups can lose.  The
>problem arises when something is cross-posted to an internal or local newsgroup
>(which is a valid use of cross-posting).
>
>In particular, I have just received an article which is cross-posted to
>comp.sources.misc and to unix-pc.sources; the latter doesn't exist around
                          ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
As a point of fact, unix-pc.sources is not an internal or local newsgroup,
but rather part of the unix-pc-net.

>here.  As a result, I have to weed this header out; and that newsgroup will
>never receive the posting.
>
This thing may become even more of a problem as the STARGATE gets going.
As this stage, I feel that the best thing to do is to warn the poster
that there is a problem, and NOT send the posting to either the
moderator or the regular newsgroup.  Of course, what this means
is that the article gets "published" in the unmoderated group now,
and in the moderated group whenever the moderator gets to it  -- now
two articles instead of one.

-- 
Ted H. Emigh, Departments of Genetics & Statistics, NCSU, Raleigh, NC
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