Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site hou3c.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!hou3c!ka 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 Article-I.D.: hou3c.912 Posted: Sun Oct 28 18:09:47 1984 Date-Received: Mon, 29-Oct-84 02:55:54 EST References: <432@cbosgd.UUCP> <5432@brl-tgr.ARPA> Organization: Bell Labs, Holmdel, NJ Lines: 25 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