[news.software.b] Help! moderated groups don't work.

mwolf@vaxc.ARPA (Michael Wolf) (09/23/89)

I've installed B-News 2.11 and NNTP 1.5.5 on my system.  Everything
works great, except when people try to post to moderated groups.

Here is an example.  I composed a message to comp.sys.sun.  I got
the following feed back:

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Send, abort, edit, or list? send
comp.sys.sun is moderated and may not be posted to directly.
Your article is being mailed to the moderator who will post it for you.
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Then, I get a mailer bounce which looks like this:

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From: Mailer-Daemon@alfred.Teknowledge.COM (Mail Delivery Subsystem)
Subject: Returned mail: User unknown
To: mwolf@alfred.Teknowledge.COM

   ----- Transcript of session follows -----
550 comp-sys-sun... User unknown

   ----- Unsent message follows -----
Return-Path: <mwolf>
Received: by Teknowledge.COM (4.0/SMI-4.0)
        id AA19238; Tue, 19 Sep 89 18:47:25 PDT
To: comp-sys-sun
Path: Teknowledge.COM!mwolf
From: mwolf@Teknowledge.COM (Michael Wolf)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun
Subject: Call-back modem vendors?
Message-Id: <219@alfred.Teknowledge.COM>
Date: 20 Sep 89 01:47:24 GMT
Reply-To: mwolf@Teknowledge.COM (Michael Wolf)
Organization: Cimflex Teknowledge Corp., Palo Alto CA
Lines: 11
 
[ message body deleted ]
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The line in the active file for comp.sys.sun looks like this:

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comp.sys.sun 0005608 0005576 m
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Nothing in the installation instructions said anything about creating
mail aliases for the moderated groups.  Can anyone tell me
what I've done wrong?

Thanks in advance,

Michael Wolf
mwolf@Teknowledge.COM