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From: mcb@styx.UUCP (Michael C. Berch)
Newsgroups: news.groups,news.admin
Subject: Re: mod.test
Message-ID: <21070@styx.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 10-Dec-86 16:19:11 EST
Article-I.D.: styx.21070
Posted: Wed Dec 10 16:19:11 1986
Date-Received: Sat, 20-Dec-86 02:10:33 EST
References: <1449@PUCC.BITNET>
Reply-To: mcb@styx.UUCP (Michael C. Berch)
Organization: Lawrence Livermore Laboratory, Livermore CA
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Summary: Good idea!
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In article <1449@PUCC.BITNET> IRWIN@PUCC.BITNET writes:
> As the news software takes over more of the responsibility for getting
> moderated sumbissions out (by mailing submissions to the appropriate
> alias on a backbone machine), it might be useful to re-instate a
> group analagous to mod.test.  This would allow one to test the
> posting of moderated articles without actually irritating a human
> moderator with something like: "I am testing our software, could you just
> send me mail if this test submission reached you?"
>  
> The idea is that articles submitted to this group would be posted immediately
> to news; an (automatic) misc.test.mod perhaps.  Would this be useful?
> Needed?  Or am I way off base?

This is a super idea and should be implemented. What happened to the
old mod.test, anyway? I have re-created a mod.test on styx for testing 
local mod groups; the moderators file entry points wherever useful for 
testing purposes. When the mod.* groups disappear I'll probably change 
it to misc.test.mod locally, but having a global group seems a better idea. 

Michael C. Berch
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