[aus.wanted] Unwanted news being posted to unknown moderators

rickg@toshiba.tic.oz (Rick Gunderson) (02/21/90)

We are running patchlevel 14 of news 2.11 and we have the following problem:

We keep getting some *incoming* news articles being posted to moderators.
Since the moderators are ``unknown users'', this results in a lot of returned
mail.  My impression was that articles should be mailed to moderators when they
are *posted*, not when they are received.

Upon further investigation, it appears that the news articles in question are
targeted at groups which are blocked from reception in our ``sys'' file.  For
example, we are blocking the reception of anything in the ``soc'' newsgroups
(and it is being blocked at our news feed as well), but when an article comes
in that is destined for (say) ``news.groups'' (which we accept) and
``soc.culture.misc'' (which we don't), the article is deposited in
``news.groups'' as it should be, but it is also mailed to user
``soc-culture-misc'' because ``soc.culture.misc'' is a moderated newsgroup.

What I believe *should* happen is that the acticle destined for
``soc.culture.misc'' should be either placed in ``junk'' or just ignored.

If anyone has any ideas about what is going on, please let me know.

Thanks in advance,

Rick

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