harmo@cc.helsinki.fi (01/10/90)
How do you moderate a newsgroups using a vms-machine running v. 5.9C? I was told I cannot use vms-mail to forward the postings into a gateway-address (on a unix-site) as the postings have to have a Accepted -field that mail cannot insert. Something like OPEN/MAIL and moving messages from the mailbox to the group seems promising, but how do you do it? --Timo Harmo, Faculty of Social Sci, U on Helsinki
sloane@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu (01/11/90)
In article <1710.25aa1e59@cc.helsinki.fi>, harmo@cc.helsinki.fi writes: > How do you moderate a newsgroups using a vms-machine running v. 5.9C? > > I was told I cannot use vms-mail to forward the postings into a gateway-address > (on a unix-site) as the postings have to have a Accepted -field that mail > cannot insert. Something like OPEN/MAIL and moving messages from the mailbox > to the group seems promising, but how do you do it? If you are the moderator of a group, postings to the groups should be mailed to you. You can then extract the mail to a file, use your favorite editor to add an Approved: header, and then use the NEWS command ADD FILE to add the article to the NEWS database. -- USmail: Bob Sloane, University of Kansas Computer Center, Lawrence, KS, 66045 E-mail: sloane@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu, sloane@ukanvax.bitnet, AT&T: (913)864-0444
gih900@UUNET.UU.NET (Geoff Huston) (01/16/90)
>How do you moderate a newsgroups using a vms-machine running v. 5.9C?
a) tell your local NEWS system that the newsgroup IS moderated, and that you are
the moderator of the newsgroup.
NEWS>SET NEWSGROUP/MODERATOR=your-mail-address
b) Use VMS MAIL to EXTRACT those postings which are news postings to yourself
as moderator.
MAIL> EXTRACT/ALL moderator.mail
c) Add these items into NEWS
NEWS> ADD FILE moderator.mail/MODERATOR
this last command will ensure that the postings will have the appropriate
"Approved:" header attached.
Geoff Huston