Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!cmcl2!nrl-cmf!ames!pasteur!ucbvax!decwrl!decvax!virgin!zinn!mem From: mem@zinn.MV.COM (Mark E. Mallett) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: comp.binaries.ibm.pc moderation Message-ID: <311@zinn.MV.COM> Date: 4 May 88 01:43:53 GMT References: <2749@bsu-cs.UUCP> Organization: Zinn Computer Co., Litchfield NH Lines: 22 Summary: the moderation message was not nice In article <2749@bsu-cs.UUCP>, dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi) writes: > I have received a couple of messages asking about moderation of > comp.binaries.ibm.pc, and I also noticed a control message (but > not from a backbone site) changing comp.binaries.ibm.pc to moderated. Yes, and this moderation message caused me a lot of grief, because the news software actually *believed* that it should mark that newsgroup as moderated. Since doing that, it noticed that every article that came here did not have an "Approved" stamp on it, so it kindly mailed it off to the moderator -- rather, the special moderator address at the designated backbone site (rutgers). Rutgers, of course, returned every piece of mail to zinn, saying that there was no such address there. Consider the amount of traffic in this newsgroup. The modem lines and the disk were tied up for a *long* time. By the time I noticed it, the flood of rejected mail from rutgers had already started, and I just had to wait it out. -mm- -- Mark E. Mallett PO Box 4188/ Manchester NH/ 03103 Bus. Phone: 603 645 5069 Home: 603 424 8129 uucp: mem@zinn.MV.COM (...decvax!elrond!zinn!mem or ...sii!zinn!mem) BIX: mmallett