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From: heiby@falkor.UUCP (Ron Heiby)
Newsgroups: news.software.b,news.admin,news.sysadmin
Subject: Re: netnews bug
Message-ID: <146@falkor.UUCP>
Date: 4 Mar 88 06:20:14 GMT
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Reply-To: heiby@mcdchg.UUCP (Ron Heiby)
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Dominick Samperi (samperi@mancol.UUCP) writes:
> Here is a bug that has bitten me several times. Any ideas?
> 
> The bug: If I post an article to several news groups, at least one of
> which is moderated, I get a message telling me that my article is being
> sent to the moderator, BUT my article is NOT posted to the unmoderated
> groups that were also listed!

Not a bug.  A feature.  The idea is that the moderator will cross-post
the article for you after approving it for the moderated group.  (There
may also be some coordination effort if multiple moderated newsgroups
are cross-posted.)  Speaking now as a moderator, most of the time,
cross-posting requests are not appropriate.  For example, when I approve
something for comp.unix, I *never* cross-post to comp.unix.*.  In those
cases, I don't even send a note back to the poster on it.  In most of
the other cases, the person has chosen good newsgroups other than the
one I moderate, so I say so in my bounce message.

If the news system worked as you suggest, then we would have duplicate
articles floating around, with people seeing your posting in the
unmoderated group(s), then again in the moderated group(s).
-- 
Ron Heiby, heiby@mcdchg.UUCP	Moderator: comp.newprod & comp.unix
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