weening@Gang-of-Four.Stanford.EDU (Joe Weening) (05/07/89)
We recently received a "newgroup comp.binaries.ibm.pc" control message that tried to change its status from moderated to unmoderated. I assumed this was spurious and ignored it; another novice news admin let one get loose, presumably. Then today a message posted to the group resulted in bounced mail; it had no "Approved" line and had the following "Path" line: Path: labrea!decwrl!ucbvax!agate!bionet!ames!purdue!mailrus!cornell!uw-beaver!teknowledge-vaxc!0rrodrig Does this mean that all of the above sites (except labrea, which was the one that tried to mail it to the moderator) now treat the group as unmoderated (since they passed on the unapproved message)? I'm somewhat surprised at this. -- Joe Weening Computer Science Dept. weening@Gang-of-Four.Stanford.EDU Stanford University
csg@pyramid.pyramid.com (Carl S. Gutekunst) (05/08/89)
>Then today a message posted to the group resulted in bounced mail; it >had no "Approved" line.... Does this mean that all of the above sites... >now treat the group as unmoderated (since they passed on the unapproved >message)? It means that all those sites do not have NONEWGROUPS set, and they automati- cally process all newgroup messages. So yes, they all were treating the group as unmoderated, during the (presumably short) interval in time between when the bugs newgroup arrived, and the time when the administrator noticed it and restored the group to moderated status. <csg>