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From: allbery@ncoast.UUCP
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Problem of moderating newsgroup
Message-ID: <2507@ncoast.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 14-May-87 20:56:43 EDT
Article-I.D.: ncoast.2507
Posted: Thu May 14 20:56:43 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 16-May-87 15:05:15 EDT
References: <1457@koudai.cs.titech.JUNET>
Reply-To: allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon Allbery)
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Organization: Cleveland Public Access UN*X, Cleveland, Oh
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As quoted from <1457@koudai.cs.titech.JUNET> by kato@koudai.cs.titech.JUNET (Akira Kato):
+---------------
| 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 :-)
+---------------

It doesn't particularly help ncoast, either.  (And I daresay that the good
people at sun are getting a bit p*ssed....)

I would agree with the proviso that the second-level moderation message be
sent a few weeks after the ORIGINAL newsgroup is removed.  This gives any
articles aliased from one newsgroup to the other a chance to get out of the
network (barring network loops/time warps, which can't be blocked anyway).

++Brando
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