mike@XAIT.Xerox.COM (Michael Cavanaugh) (10/06/88)
There was a discussion a while ago about locally moderated newsgroups. How do you set this up? I would like to have a local moderated newsgroup and have the articles sent to a local moderater. Right now with 2.11 all moderated articles are sent off to a backbone site.
jbuck@epimass.EPI.COM (Joe Buck) (10/06/88)
In article <34309@XAIT.Xerox.COM> mike@XAIT.Xerox.COM (Michael Cavanaugh) writes: >There was a discussion a while ago about locally moderated >newsgroups. How do you set this up? I would like to have >a local moderated newsgroup and have the articles sent to >a local moderater. Right now with 2.11 all moderated articles >are sent off to a backbone site. The ability to have local moderated groups was added in patch #1 to 2.11 news (most of us are running at patch #14 these days), but unfortunately there have been no patches to the documentation. (Any volunteers?) When someone posts to a moderated group, inews searches the file /usr/lib/news/mailpaths for a match to the newsgroup name, or for the string "backbone", whichever it finds first. Let's say the Frobozz company has a bunch of moderated groups, all of whose names start with "frobozz.". Let's say you want to maintain aliases for the moderators for most of the groups on the machine "admin.frobozz.com", except for frobozz.foo, whose moderator is a local user, ralph. Here's a mailpaths file (assuming your mailer knows about @): frobozz.foo ralph frobozz %s@admin.frobozz.com backbone %s@uunet.uu.net internet %s If %s appears in the right hand side it is replaced by the newsgroup name, with dots changed to hyphens. So postings to frobozz.announce go to frobozz-announce@admin.frobozz.com. Postings to net-wide moderated groups are still sent to uunet. The order of the lines is important! The search of the file stops as soon as a match is found that will work. -- - Joe Buck, card-carrying ACLU liberal jbuck@epimass.epi.com, or uunet!epimass.epi.com!jbuck, or jbuck%epimass.epi.com@uunet.uu.net for old Arpa sites