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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
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Posted: Fri Dec 19 01:00:51 1986
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Organization: Software Engineering Research Center (SERC), Georgia Tech
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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
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