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From: merlin@hqda-ai.UUCP (David S. Hayes)
Newsgroups: news.admin,news.software.b
Subject: Re: Problem with moderated news handling
Message-ID: <380@hqda-ai.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 22-May-87 11:00:46 EDT
Article-I.D.: hqda-ai.380
Posted: Fri May 22 11:00:46 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 23-May-87 15:47:35 EDT
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Organization: Army AI Center, Pentagon
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Summary: Software should be changed.  Present scheme is internally contradictory.
Xref: mnetor news.admin:488 news.software.b:630


     I also believe that the software should be changed.  The
present scheme calls for articles to be mailed to the moderator,
who will then post the article to their own newsgroup, and
cross-post to the unmoderated groups.

     This scheme is not fully workable.  Suppose an article is
posted to several different groups, two of which are moderated?
Each moderator gets a copy, and posts the article to all the named
groups.

     Now, there are two different copies of each article floating
around in the unmoderated groups - one from each moderator.
Further, there are two copies in the moderated groups, also.
Remember that the when the moderator posts, the article acquires
an "Approved:" header line.  This will cause the article to be
posted to the moderated groups, instead of being mailed back to
the moderators.

     I think this should be changed.  I *know* the software will
do this sort of thing, and I've still been bitten.  God knows how
users who haven't read the docs have survived...

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