george@cis.ohio-state.edu (George M. Jones) (06/27/91)
This is realy a news.software.c question, but since that group does not exist... A user at our site just reported a "bug in Pnews". Turns out he had posted a note to a long list of groups, one of which was moderated. inews simply mailed the article to the moderator of the moderated group without posting to the unmoderated group. Is this a bug or a feature ? I'd tend towards calling it a bug, since he posted to unmoderated groups and it failed to show up and he got no diagnostic. ---George Jones -- OSU Computer & Inf. Science 2036 Neil Ave.,Columbus,Ohio 43210. 614-292-7325 george@cis.ohio-state.edu or ...!osu-cis!george "The number of Unix installations has grown to 10, with more expected." --- The Unix Programmer's Manual, 2nd Edition, June, 1972. ---
henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) (06/27/91)
In article <1991Jun27.144955.25189@cis.ohio-state.edu> george@cis.ohio-state.edu (George M. Jones) writes: >A user at our site just reported a "bug in Pnews". Turns out he had posted >a note to a long list of groups, one of which was moderated. inews >simply mailed the article to the moderator of the moderated group without >posting to the unmoderated group. Is this a bug or a feature ? I'd tend >towards calling it a bug, since he posted to unmoderated groups and it >failed to show up and he got no diagnostic. This is a feature. Inews does attempt to produce a message saying it is mailing to the moderator; he may have overlooked that or Pnews may have eaten it. If moderated groups are to have any meaning, anything in them, including cross-postings, needs moderator approval, and there is no way to retroactively add a group to an already-posted article, so anything (cross-)posted to a moderated group goes to the moderator. -- "We're thinking about upgrading from | Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology SunOS 4.1.1 to SunOS 3.5." | henry@zoo.toronto.edu utzoo!henry
ambar@athena.mit.edu (Jean Marie Diaz) (06/27/91)
From: george@cis.ohio-state.edu (George M. Jones) Date: 27 Jun 91 14:49:55 GMT This is realy a news.software.c question, but since that group does not exist... Actually, B News behaves the same way, so it's irrelevant. A user at our site just reported a "bug in Pnews". Turns out he had posted a note to a long list of groups, one of which was moderated. inews simply mailed the article to the moderator of the moderated group without posting to the unmoderated group. Is this a bug or a feature ? I'd tend towards calling it a bug, since he posted to unmoderated groups and it failed to show up and he got no diagnostic. There are only two possible things to do here: 1) send the posting to the moderator and let hir post it to all the groups mentioned, or 2) actually post the article to the unmoderated groups and send a copy to the moderator, who will post it separately to the moderated group. This loses because people who subscribe to the moderated group and any other group the posting went to will see it twice. The "bug" is that Pnews does not warn the user about the behaviour of postings made to both moderated and unmoderated groups. inews is fine. AMBAR
george@cis.ohio-state.edu (George M. Jones) (06/28/91)
ambar@athena.mit.edu (Jean Marie Diaz) writes:
There are only two possible things to do here:
2) actually post the article to the unmoderated groups and send a copy
to the moderator, who will post it separately to the moderated group.
.....and if it is posted to more than one moderated group ?
---George
--
OSU Computer & Inf. Science 2036 Neil Ave.,Columbus,Ohio 43210. 614-292-7325
george@cis.ohio-state.edu or ...!osu-cis!george
"The number of Unix installations has grown to 10, with more expected."
--- The Unix Programmer's Manual, 2nd Edition, June, 1972. ---ambar@athena.mit.edu (Jean Marie Diaz) (06/28/91)
From: george@cis.ohio-state.edu (George M. Jones)
Date: 27 Jun 91 17:19:33 GMT
ambar@athena.mit.edu (Jean Marie Diaz) writes:
There are only two possible things to do here:
2) actually post the article to the unmoderated groups and send a copy
to the moderator, who will post it separately to the moderated group.
...and if it is posted to more than one moderated group ?
Send it to both moderators and let the fastest one win. :-)
AMBAR