celozzi@cadillac.CAD.MCC.COM (Dominic Celozzi) (08/03/88)
Objective: Create local newsgroups which are moderated. Problem: According to O'Reilly & Associates (Managing UUCP and Usenet - p.194): "News version 2.11 will automatically mail postings to moderated newsgroups to the moderator.... The mailpaths file should contain the address of the nearest backbone site.... When someone posts to a moderated group, the article will be forwarded to the backbone site, from which it will be mailed to the current moderator of the group." If postings are automatically mailed to the backbone site, then how is it possible to "intercept" these postings and forward them to the moderator? Also, how can the moderator be granted privilege to post articles without having the software mail his/her postings to the backbone? Please e-mail all responses to me, unless of course you think this is a topic which would be of benefit to the rest of the net. Thanks in advance for your cooperation, Dominic Celozzi MCC VLSI CAD Program [512] 343-0978 P.O. Box 200195, Austin, TX 78720 ARPA: celozzi@mcc.com UUCP: ...!cs.utexas.edu!milano!cadillac!celozzi
jos@philapd.UUCP (Jos Vos) (08/04/88)
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???? -- # Jos Vos # Internet jos@philapd.UUCP # # Philips TDS, Dept SSP # # # P.O. Box 245 # UUCP ..!mcvax!philapd!jos # # 7300 AE Apeldoorn, The Netherlands # Phone +31 55 433181 #
jbuck@epimass.EPI.COM (Joe Buck) (08/05/88)
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,<smart-site>}!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