[news.software.b] How to setup a local moderated newsgroup?

henks@nikhefk.UUCP (Henk Schouten) (02/01/91)

Hello world,

Since some short time we a running CNews, only locally for the moment, but
with an external feed soon. We have defined some local groups of which I
would like some to be moderated. I have got some questions about how to
achieve this.

How do I tell who is the moderator? And how can this moderator do a posting
to the newsgroup without getting told it is moderated? Does a posting to
this moderated newsgroup get mailed to the moderator automatically?

Any help would be very much appreciated. Please reply by email.

Henk Schouten                                   email:  henks@si.hhs.nl
Sector Informatica, Haagse Hogeschool           or:     henks@nikhefk.nikhef.nl
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tale@cs.rpi.edu (David C Lawrence) (02/04/91)

In article <818@nikhefk.UUCP> henks@nikhefk.UUCP (Henk Schouten) writes:

   How do I tell who is the moderator? [Using C News.]

You add it to your $NEWSCTL/mailpaths file, translating '.'s to '-'s.
Read spaf's recent posting in news.admin, "How to Construct the
Mailpaths File".  If it is already absent from your site, I will send
you a copy on request.  You might just want to add just a general
hierarchy pattern, like the following for example, rather than one for
each newsgroup:

rpi     %s@rpi.edu

   And how can this moderator do a posting to the newsgroup without
   getting told it is moderated?

By adding an "Approved: moderator@address" header.

   Does a posting to this moderated newsgroup get mailed to the
   moderator automatically?

It should be mailed only from the point of posting; this is how it
works with C News.

   Please reply by email.

Other people ask, so I am posting too.

Dave
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