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From: billw@killer.UUCP (Pope Bill I)
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Subject: Re: comp.binaries.ibm.pc and moderation: ATTN SYSADMINS!
Message-ID: <2571@killer.UUCP>
Date: 24 Dec 87 23:22:35 GMT
References: <6366@ncoast.UUCP> <2397@killer.UUCP> <3134@bunker.UUCP>
Reply-To: billw@killer.UUCP (Bill Wisner)
Organization: The Unix(R) Connection BBS, Dallas, Tx
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In article <3134@bunker.UUCP> wtm@bunker.UUCP (Bill McGarry) writes:
>Maybe the thing to do is to have another type of control message which
>will look in the "mailpaths" file for a specified moderated group and
>if present (or if present with the old moderator's name) send mail to 
>"news" on that system stating that the moderators path has been changed.  

Not that simple. Mailpaths is generally used only for paths to a backbone and
an internet-parsing site. I have never had a chance to experiment with
moderator names being placed in mailpaths, but to the best of my knoledge
when that is done they moderator paths are only used for articles originating
locally.

The sites that provide the backbone mail-forwarding service for moderated
groups keep a set of mail aliases, one for each moderator. On killer, the
aliases all go into /usr/lib/mail/aliases. On most other systems, they
are in /usr/lib/aliases. I am sure there are a few oddball systems around
that have them somewhere else entirely. Such a feature would take a fair
amount of twiddling.
-- 
Bill Wisner / billw@killer.UUCP / ..{codas,cuae2,ihnp4}!killer!billw
Sorry / No witty quotation today.