gore@nucsrl.UUCP (Jacob Gore) (09/17/87)
The latest posting, "USENET Software: History and Sources", stressed that users of software packages other then the new-enough news software will be greatly inconvenienced by the lack of automatic handling of moderated groups. This need not be so. There is a very simple procedure that a system administrator can follow that will make submission to moderated groups quite easy: 1. Disallow users to write into the moderated groups. (In notes, you can do it by setting the protection for "group: other" to "Read only".) 2. Notify users that to submit something to a moderated group, they can send mail to the name of the group. (In notes, you can do it by posting a standard "This is a moderated group, etc...." policy notes.) 3. Define mail aliases that will allow #2 to happen. This is extremely easy to do: Just extract the "submission address" listing from the monthly posting of "List of Moderators" in news.lists, and, if necessary, convert it to the syntax of your file of aliases (you may need to put in a colon after the group name, or something like that). I have been using this setup for quite a while here, and I've had no complaints. Jacob Gore gore@EECS.NWU.Edu Northwestern Univ., EECS Dept. {gargoyle,ihnp4,chinet}!nucsrl!gore