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From: dplatt@teknowledge-vaxc.ARPA (Dave Platt)
Newsgroups: news.admin,news.software.b
Subject: Re: Problem with moderated news handling
Message-ID: <12969@teknowledge-vaxc.ARPA>
Date: Thu, 21-May-87 12:31:07 EDT
Article-I.D.: teknowle.12969
Posted: Thu May 21 12:31:07 1987
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Organization: Teknowledge, Inc., Palo Alto CA
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Summary: Moderated/unmoderated cross-posting feature causes problems
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In-reply-to: allbery@ncoast.UUCP's message of 20 May 87 00:53:19 GMT

Posting-Front-End: GNU Emacs 18.41.3 of Tue Apr  7 1987 on teknowledge-vaxc (berkeley-unix)


Yeah, this problem just bit me too.  Yesterday, I posted a message to
comp.unix.wizards, comp.protocols.tcp-ip, and comp.sys.sun.  The
latter is moderated [and digestified!]; the former are neither.  My
posting has now been emailed to the Sun-Spots collection point (via
decvax), and it will presumably return as part of a Sun-Spots digest.
Unfortunately, because comp.sys.sun doesn't redistribute "approved"
articles in their original undigested form, I believe that my article
will _not_ appear in comp.unix.wizards or comp.protocols.tcp-ip.

To make matters a bit worse, I wasn't aware of the presence of this
"feature" (shoulda read the directions more carefully!) and I didn't
think to save a local file-copy of my posting... so I'll have to wait
until the Sun-Spots digest comes out in a week or so and I can copy my
article's text out of the digest and repost it.

Sigh... this behavior seems [to me] to run counter to the "Law of
Least Astonishment".