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From: sloane@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu
Newsgroups: news.software.anu-news
Subject: Re: moderating a group?
Message-ID: <21020.25ab21cb@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu>
Date: 10 Jan 90 17:51:39 GMT
References: <1710.25aa1e59@cc.helsinki.fi>
Organization: University of Kansas Academic Computing Services
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In article <1710.25aa1e59@cc.helsinki.fi>, harmo@cc.helsinki.fi writes:
> How do you moderate a newsgroups using a vms-machine running v. 5.9C? 
> 
> I was told I cannot use vms-mail to forward the postings into a gateway-address
> (on a unix-site) as the postings have to have a Accepted -field that mail
> cannot insert.  Something like OPEN/MAIL and moving messages from the mailbox
> to the group seems promising, but how do you do it?

If you are the moderator of a group, postings to the groups should be mailed
to you.  You can then extract the mail to a file, use your favorite editor to
add an Approved: header, and then use the NEWS command ADD FILE to add the
article to the NEWS database.
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