Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!rutgers!clyde!cbatt!cbosgd!gatech!spaf From: spaf@gatech.EDU (Gene Spafford) Newsgroups: news.software.b,news.admin Subject: Re: Bug in moderated groups handling? Message-ID: <8076@gatech.EDU> Date: Fri, 19-Dec-86 01:00:51 EST Article-I.D.: gatech.8076 Posted: Fri Dec 19 01:00:51 1986 Date-Received: Sat, 20-Dec-86 00:09:05 EST References: <221@uniq.UUCP> <222@uniq.UUCP> Reply-To: spaf@gatech.UUCP (Gene Spafford) Organization: Software Engineering Research Center (SERC), Georgia Tech Lines: 44 Keywords: inews 2.11 mod.all unapproved Xref: mnetor news.software.b:118 news.admin:79 In article <222@uniq.UUCP> rjnoe@uniq.UUCP (Roger J. Noe) writes: >I guess I have a few questions that beg to be answered: > 1. Why was DONTFORWARD used to exclude the above code? Because we intend the default behavior the way it is in order to keep sites running pre-2.11 news from mucking up. If the default behavior were to simply throw the article into the bit bucket, posting attempts from sites with faulty flags in their active files or faulty software might just lose their postings. This way, the postings don't get circulated but they *do* get to the moderator rather quickly and can then be posted correctly. The ifdef'd code is there for the sites in Europe, mostly, where they don't want this behavior. > 2. Why was DONTFORWARD left out of the 2.11 news installation > notes? Is it just an oversight or should it not be used? It shouldn't be used by sites in North America. I assume it was left out as an oversight. > 3. Why is a site that apparently runs 2.11 news (ihnp4) sending > on unapproved articles in moderated newsgroups? Well, at a guess, either ihnp4 isn't running 2.11 news, or they don't have the moderated flag (field 4 in "active") set properly for the moderated groups. I'd suspect the later. > 4. Why does backbone site ihnp4 not have mail aliases for the > moderated groups? Does this mean that I *do* have to maintain > a moderators list and have a line for every different moderator > in my LIBDIR/mailpaths file? It means that ihnp4 is not one of the backbone sites supporting the aliases for moderated groups. You don't have to keep a separate line for each group (unless you want to). I will post something soon that will list the syntax of the mailpaths file and list the sites maintaining official mail aliases for the moderated groups. For the moment, you might want to one of these sites: cbatt, clyde, cuae2, gatech, seismo, sdcsvax, hao, uw-beaver and watmath. -- Gene Spafford Software Engineering Research Center (SERC), Georgia Tech, Atlanta GA 30332 CSNet: Spaf @ GATech ARPA: Spaf@gatech.EDU uucp: ...!{akgua,decvax,hplabs,ihnp4,linus,seismo,ulysses}!gatech!spaf