dcox@ssd.kodak.com (Don Cox (253-7121)) (11/28/90)
I am running Cnews using nntp on a Sun4/260 running SunOS4.0.3.
I have set up various local newsgroups for my organization (ex. ispd.help)
and I was wondering if there is any way that I can make a local newsgroup
moderated? What is involved in sending all of the postings to this
particular newsgroup to a local moderator, who then decides what should
and shouldn't be posted? How is the moderator defined?
Thanks.
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When an eel bites your leg, and the pain makes you beg, that's a moray!henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) (11/28/90)
In article <1990Nov27.160036.6577@ssd.kodak.com> dcox@ssd.kodak.com (Don Cox (253-7121)) writes: >... I was wondering if there is any way that I can make a local newsgroup >moderated? What is involved in sending all of the postings to this >particular newsgroup to a local moderator, who then decides what should >and shouldn't be posted? How is the moderator defined? Making a local group moderated just means putting "m" in the fourth field of the active-file entry for that group. Then you need an entry in the "mailpaths" control file specifying where to send postings in that group; for example, this foo,bar postmaster says to send any postings to groups foo or bar to postmaster. That defines the moderator. He/she then needs to prepare postings with an appropriate Approved: header; see RFC1036. -- "The average pointer, statistically, |Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology points somewhere in X." -Hugh Redelmeier| henry@zoo.toronto.edu utzoo!henry