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From: SLOANE@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu (Bob Sloane)
Newsgroups: news.software.anu-news
Subject: Re: Problems creating moderated groups.
Message-ID: <8333@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu>
Date: 10 Aug 89 22:04:42 GMT
References: <8105@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu> <42@tor.nhh.no>
Organization: University of Kansas Academic Computing Services
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In article <42@tor.nhh.no>, edb_tom@tor.nhh.no (Tom Ivar Helbekkmo) writes:
> In article <8105@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu>, SLOANE@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu (Bob Sloane) writes:
>> I just tried to create the new newsgroup news.announce.newgroups which should
>> be moderated.  [...]
> 
> Does this mean that, for every moderated newsgroup, I have to find out
> who the moderator is, and then manually tell NEWS that the group is
> moderated, and by that person?

No. Create the newsgroup by using:

NEWS> create newsgroup/mod=x news.announce.newgroups

Then use your favorite editor to edit NEWS_MANAGER:MAILPATHS.  There will be a
line somewhere in MAILPATHS like:

news.announce.newgroups x

You just need to delete the " x" at the end of the line.  There should also be
a line in the MAILPATHS file like:

backbone %s@some-backbone.some.net

which will tell NEWS the address of the nearest backbone site.  Backbone site
names can be found in the postings to news.admin titled:

How to Construct the Mailpaths File (Updated: 21 Jul 1989)

By the way, it wouldn't be that hard to put in the addresses of all of the
moderators, since they are posted monthly in news.groups by Gene Spafford. See
the articles titled: List of Moderators (Updated: 21 Jul 1989) in news.groups.
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