Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcvax!botter!star!sater
From: sater@cs.vu.nl (Hans van Staveren)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Default behaviour on non-approved messages in moderated groups
Message-ID: <714@sater.cs.vu.nl>
Date: 11 May 88 09:34:51 GMT
Organization: V.U. Informatica, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
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When our site gets messages from our feed in a newsgroup believed to
be moderated, it turns them into mail-messages to the moderator.
I believe this is not the best way.

I see this now for the newsgroup comp.binaries.ibm.pc, which is moderated
according to the latest checkgroups message we got. Dozens of *big* files
are shipped back over our maillink to our backbone, which clutters up
our mailfeed, and probably doesn't make the backbone happy either.

What about throwing away the message, and mailing back a short message
to the author of the article, or perhaps to usenet@posting-site?

				Hans van Staveren
				Vrije Universiteit
				Amsterdam, Holland

PS. We are running the latest version of the software, as distributed
    in this group.