mcb@styx.UUCP (Michael C. Berch) (12/11/86)
In article <1449@PUCC.BITNET> IRWIN@PUCC.BITNET writes: > As the news software takes over more of the responsibility for getting > moderated sumbissions out (by mailing submissions to the appropriate > alias on a backbone machine), it might be useful to re-instate a > group analagous to mod.test. This would allow one to test the > posting of moderated articles without actually irritating a human > moderator with something like: "I am testing our software, could you just > send me mail if this test submission reached you?" > > The idea is that articles submitted to this group would be posted immediately > to news; an (automatic) misc.test.mod perhaps. Would this be useful? > Needed? Or am I way off base? This is a super idea and should be implemented. What happened to the old mod.test, anyway? I have re-created a mod.test on styx for testing local mod groups; the moderators file entry points wherever useful for testing purposes. When the mod.* groups disappear I'll probably change it to misc.test.mod locally, but having a global group seems a better idea. Michael C. Berch ARPA: mcb@lll-tis-b.arpa UUCP: ...!lll-lcc!styx!mcb ...!lll-crg!styx!mcb ...!ihnp4!styx!mcb