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From: IRWIN@pucc.Princeton.EDU (Irwin Tillman)
Newsgroups: news.sysadmin,news.admin
Subject: Re: netnews bug
Message-ID: <4678@pucc.Princeton.EDU>
Date: 10 Mar 88 21:44:33 GMT
References: <3479@medusa.cs.purdue.edu> <285@mancol.UUCP> <114@hawkmoon.MN.ORG>
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In article <3479@medusa.cs.purdue.edu>, spaf@cs.purdue.EDU (Gene Spafford) writes:
 
>(Refering to a complaint that posting an article to multiple groups,
>one of which is moderated, results in the article not being posted.)
 ...
>The way it works now is that postnews sends your article to the
>moderator.  If the moderator believes the cross posting is appropriate,
>s/he will post it to all the groups (moderators can successfully
>crosspost to their group).
 
Those of you using version P of Netnews (VM/CMS implementation), should
note that this is handled differently there.  Postnews takes the list
of newsgroups you supply and divides it into those that are moderated
and those which are unmoderated.  If the unmoderated list is not empty,
the article is posted immediately, with a Newsgroups header containing
only the unmoderated newsgroups.  If the moderated list is not empty,
the article is mailed to each moderator.  A newsgroup which *you*
moderate is considered unmoderated.