kato@koudai.cs.titech.JUNET (Akira Kato) (05/07/87)
When a newsgroup is changed to moderated, a lot of articles may arrive
with no Approved: header after control message changed from 'y' to 'm'.
Recently, comp.sources.misc has changed to moderated and a lot of
large articles have been mailed to comp-sources-misc@BACKBONE. This
situation is not good, especially oversea sites and V*X11/730 :-)
To avoid this problem, two level moderation would be a solution:
First level:
Only a article posted to 1st level moderated newsgroup at the
local site is mailed to the moderator, but rnews does not check
the Approved: header.
After a week or two weeks, second level control message is posted:
Second level:
Not only inews but also rnews checks the Approved: header. The
flag in $(LIBDIR)/active is changed to (for example) 'M'.
The moderator of a newsgroup should post two control messages, however,
he/she will get few illegal mails. Modification of news system is
easy, I guess.
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Akira Kato, Tokyo Institute of Technology
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ARPA: kato%cs.titech.junet@japan.csnetallbery@ncoast.UUCP (05/15/87)
As quoted from <1457@koudai.cs.titech.JUNET> by kato@koudai.cs.titech.JUNET (Akira Kato): +--------------- | When a newsgroup is changed to moderated, a lot of articles may arrive | with no Approved: header after control message changed from 'y' to 'm'. | Recently, comp.sources.misc has changed to moderated and a lot of | large articles have been mailed to comp-sources-misc@BACKBONE. This | situation is not good, especially oversea sites and V*X11/730 :-) +--------------- It doesn't particularly help ncoast, either. (And I daresay that the good people at sun are getting a bit p*ssed....) I would agree with the proviso that the second-level moderation message be sent a few weeks after the ORIGINAL newsgroup is removed. This gives any articles aliased from one newsgroup to the other a chance to get out of the network (barring network loops/time warps, which can't be blocked anyway). ++Brando -- Copyright (C) 1987 Brandon S. Allbery. Redistribution permitted only if the redistributor permits further redistribution. ---- Moderator for comp.sources.misc ---- Brandon S. Allbery {decvax,cbatt,cbosgd}!cwruecmp!ncoast!allbery Tridelta Industries {ames,mit-eddie,talcott}!necntc!ncoast!allbery 7350 Corporate Blvd. necntc!ncoast!allbery@harvard.HARVARD.EDU Mentor, OH 44060 +01 216 255 1080 (also eddie.MIT.EDU)