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 Lines: 18 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.