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From: ka@hou3c.UUCP (Kenneth Almquist)
Newsgroups: net.news.group
Subject: Re: moderated newsgroups created
Message-ID: <912@hou3c.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 28-Oct-84 18:09:47 EST
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Posted: Sun Oct 28 18:09:47 1984
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Cc: Netnews Software Developers 

> For those who will be reading BOTH mod.xxx and net.xxx; is there ANY way,
> prior to displaying the article and recognizing it (that is, from the 
> header display alone), to determine that you have already read  the
> article in question on the other group? I doubt it -- such articles
> won't simply have "mod.xxx,net.xxx" in their headers.

As the writer of a program designed to sit between postnews and inews,
let me say what I have currently implemented.  If one of the newsgroups
that you try to post to is moderated, the article will be mailed to the
moderator of that group, with the newsgroup line intact.  It is then
the responsibility of the moderator to post to all the groups that you
requested.  If you post to multiple moderated groups, your article will
be mailed to only one of the moderators.  It is the responsiblity of
that moderator to negotiate with the moderators of the other moderated
groups to decide whether the article is appropriate for all groups, and
if it is to post it to all the moderated groups.  (Of course, if you try
to post to net.announce and some other group, the moderator should tell
you that that is improper.)

The only problem with this is that your article will have to be approved
by the moderator before it can be posted to any of the groups, even the
unmoderated ones.  The only way to solve this problem is to provide an
"Add newsgroup to article" control message, which is probably not worth
the effort.
					Kenneth Almquist