[news.admin] news 2.11 feature

kurt@hi.UUCP (Kurt Zeilenga) (05/03/87)

I've noticed the following feature while running postnews,
News 2.11 at patchlevel 8 (I noticed it also in the orig.
2.11, but assumed it would get fixed when I upgraded my
software).

I ran postnews and selected n (n>1) groups to crosspost to.
One (and only one) of the groups happened to be moderated.
I got a nice message stating that the group was moderated
and that my article would be mailed to appropriate person.
According to my syslog, it was.  However, the message NEVER
appeared in any of the other n-1 groups!

Anyways, anybody fix this one?  If not, I would be willing
to take it on in the true spirit of USENET.  Or am I just
a misguided, lost soul (IE: IT'S REALLY A FEATURE, not a
bug).

-- 
	Kurt Zeilenga	(zeilenga@hc.dspo.gov)

rick@seismo.CSS.GOV (Rick Adams) (05/03/87)

Thats a feature. The moderator of the group should post it to all
of the groups at once.

--rick

rcodi@yabbie.oz (Ian Donaldson) (05/05/87)

> I ran postnews and selected n (n>1) groups to crosspost to.
> One (and only one) of the groups happened to be moderated.
> I got a nice message stating that the group was moderated
> and that my article would be mailed to appropriate person.
> According to my syslog, it was.  However, the message NEVER
> appeared in any of the other n-1 groups!

Why have your article published via a moderator, if you are going 
to publish it yourself anyway?  Seems like it would be a waste
of net resources to have two copies of essentially the same article
floating around (at different times even, depending on how long
the moderator takes to post it).

Ian D