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From: kato@koudai.cs.titech.JUNET (Akira Kato)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Problem of moderating newsgroup
Message-ID: <1457@koudai.cs.titech.JUNET>
Date: Thu, 7-May-87 04:13:11 EDT
Article-I.D.: koudai.1457
Posted: Thu May  7 04:13:11 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 9-May-87 19:34:55 EDT
Reply-To: kato%cs.titech.junet@japan.csnet (Akira Kato)
Organization: Tokyo Institute of Tech., Dept. of Computer Science, Japan
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When a newsgroup is changed to moderated, a lot of articles may arrive
with no Approved: header after control message changed from 'y' to 'm'.
Recently, comp.sources.misc has changed to moderated and a lot of
large articles have been mailed to comp-sources-misc@BACKBONE. This
situation is not good, especially oversea sites and V*X11/730 :-)

To avoid this problem, two level moderation would be a solution:
  First level:
	Only a article posted to 1st level moderated newsgroup at the
	local site is mailed to the moderator, but rnews does not check
	the Approved: header.
After a week or two weeks, second level control message is posted:
  Second level:
	Not only inews but also rnews checks the Approved: header. The 
	flag in $(LIBDIR)/active is changed to (for example) 'M'.

The moderator of a newsgroup should post two control messages, however,
he/she will get few illegal mails. Modification of news system is
easy, I guess.

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Akira Kato, Tokyo Institute of Technology
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