Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!wugate!wupost!kuhub.cc.ukans.edu!sloane From: SLOANE@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu (Bob Sloane) Newsgroups: news.software.anu-news Subject: Problems creating moderated groups. Message-ID: <8105@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu> Date: 8 Aug 89 15:10:42 GMT Organization: University of Kansas Academic Computing Services Lines: 34 Hi All, I just tried to create the new newsgroup news.announce.newgroups which should be moderated. I used the command: NEWS> create newsgroup/mod news.announce.newgroups but the newsgroup was not created moderated, and no error message was generated. It turns out that the routine get_input_dflt is having problems trying to confirm the moderator address. I have the line: backbone %s@ucbvax.berkeley.edu in the mailpaths file, so the line SMG$READ_COMPOSED_LINE was trying to work with was: Moderator for news.announce.newgroups: news-announce-newgroups@ucbvax.\ berkeley.edu Which is apparently too long to display, since a 20 (invalid parameter) was returned. I am not quite sure how to fix this problem, but the group can be set moderated by specifying an explicit moderator address: NEWS> create newsgroup/mod=x news.announce.newgroups and then fixing the moderator address in the mailpaths file by hand. While I was looking into this problem, I noticed that there were duplicate entries on the mailpaths file for moderated newsgroups. I don't see this as a big problem, but eventually, it might cause preformance problems, as the file gets really large. +-------------------+-------------------------------------+------------------+ | Bob Sloane \Internet: SLOANE@KUHUB.CC.UKANS.EDU/Anything I said is | | Computer Center \ BITNET: SLOANE@UKANVAX.BITNET / my opinion, not my | | University of Kansas\ AT&T: (913) 864-0444 / employer's. | +-----------------------+-----------------------------+----------------------+