Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!husc6!rutgers!apple!epimass!jbuck From: jbuck@epimass.EPI.COM (Joe Buck) Newsgroups: news.config Subject: Re: Local Moderated newsgroups Keywords: moderators, mailpaths Message-ID: <2361@epimass.EPI.COM> Date: 4 Aug 88 17:16:27 GMT References: <308@cadillac.CAD.MCC.COM> Reply-To: jbuck@epimass.EPI.COM (Joe Buck) Organization: Entropic Processing, Inc., Cupertino, CA Lines: 42 In article <308@cadillac.CAD.MCC.COM> celozzi%cad@MCC.COM (Dominic Celozzi) writes: >Objective: > Create local newsgroups which are moderated. The mailpaths file may be used to create local moderated groups. This was actually added in patch #1 to 2.11 news (but no one should be running the raw version because of the large number of bugs). Let's say you're at QXZ corporation, and you have a bunch of internal newsgroups, some moderated, some not, all of whose names start with qxz. Let's pretend that the machine hq.qxz.com has mail aliases for all the newsgroups, but the machine you manage, boondocks.qxz.com, is where the moderator for qxz.seminars, user id "susan", has her account. Let's also say you have a mailer that understands "@", although this isn't necessary. Use the following mailpaths file: qxz.seminars susan qxz %s@hq.qxz.com backbone %s@uunet.uu.net internet %s When a user posts to the moderated group qxz.announce, the message is then mailed to qxz-announce@hp.qxz.com, because the "qxz" line is the first line in the file that matches. Posting a message to qxz.seminars is simply mailed to "susan", because there is no %s in the address on the right-hand side. Posting to news.announce will be mailed to news-announce@uunet.uu.net, as before. If you don't support mail aliases, then you'll need to list all local moderated groups explicitly with the moderator address, as I did for "susan" above. Important: lines for local moderated groups must come BEFORE the "backbone" line. -- - Joe Buck {uunet,ucbvax,pyramid,}!epimass.epi.com!jbuck jbuck@epimass.epi.com Old Arpa mailers: jbuck%epimass.epi.com@uunet.uu.net If you leave your fate in the hands of the gods, don't be surprised if they have a few grins at your expense. - Tom Robbins