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From: jos@philapd.UUCP (Jos Vos)
Newsgroups: news.config
Subject: Re: Local Moderated newsgroups
Keywords: moderators, mailpaths
Message-ID: <470@ssp15.idca.tds.philips.nl>
Date: 4 Aug 88 15:06:48 GMT
References: <308@cadillac.CAD.MCC.COM>
Organization: Philips TDS, P.O. Box 245, 7300 AE Apeldoorn, The Netherlands
Lines: 31

In article <308@cadillac.CAD.MCC.COM> celozzi%cad@MCC.COM (Dominic Celozzi) writes:
>Objective:
>  Create local newsgroups which are moderated.
>Problem:
>  If postings are automatically mailed to the backbone site, then how
>  is it possible to "intercept" these postings and forward them to the
>  moderator?  ...

The mailpaths file may contain:
-  an entry "internet" for mail addressing
-  an entry "backbone" to which articles for moderated newsgroups will be sent
AND....
-  entries for a newsgroup, e.g. "phil.announce", with a right part
   a-local-system!%s.
   Then posted articles are sent to a-local-system!phil-announce, in this 
   example.
   WARNING: be sure the newsgroup entries are put IN FRONT OF the backbone
   entry, because scanning stops as soon as that entry has been found.

>  ....Also, how can the moderator be granted privilege to post
>  articles without having the software mail his/her postings to the backbone?

I'm also interested in that question: but I think that's only possible 
using inews directly, without Pnews/postnews etc.
Any suggestions????

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