Re: to moderate alt.dev.null
Adam H. Kerman
>Thus spake sn...@spambin.fsnet.co.uk (Sn!pe)
>>Adam H. Kerman <a...@chinet.com> wrote:
>>>>>I just noticed that alt.dev.null is unmoderated. I request that you
>>>>>change it to moderated and allow self-approved articles, which is
>>>>>traditional.
>>>>Seconded; hopefully this would also improve propagation.
>>>I tested it in two followups in your thread. In the first, I added an
>>>Approved header, which vanished. In the second, I didn't self-approve
>>>it, so the message won't propagate to any server that's set it up in the
>>>traditional manner.
>>I found that some unapproved articles posted on Motz. did actually
>>propagate to a few servers; IIRC in some cases I could post to adn
>>unapproved on those servers too,
>This is the expected behaviour on servers that carry this group as
>"unmoderated", so no surprise there.
>Motzarella has a per group authorization for sending "Approved:" headers
>and "Approved:" headers for groups marked as "unmoderated" are removed
>automatically. If someone sends an "Approved:" header for a moderated
>group, his access rights are checked and the article will be rejected if
>he has no moderator privileges.
That's reasonable.
>The notorious self-moderated groups are of course handled differently.
Aside from alt.dev.null, what are the other ones?
>I have now marked alt.dev.null as "moderated" and added it to the
>list of "chicken" groups.
I'm crossposting this message; let's see if it works.
Adam H. Kerman
>>I'm crossposting this message; let's see if it works.
>Bingo!
>[fu set: adn]
Thank goodness we can have on-topic conversation here again.
George Kamenz
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>[fu to ... well ... misc.test]
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