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Chade
Oct 29, 2007, 4:29:05 PM10/29/07
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======================================= MODERATOR'S COMMENT:
working fine.
alt.magick.moderated is a MODERATED newsgroup.
Consult http://www.alt-magick-moderated.org/ where you
may locate the newest Posting Guidelines and Charter
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Erwin Hessle
Nov 1, 2007, 3:29:55 AM11/1/07
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42.
Do I pass?
Erwin Hessle, 8=3
Absorbed
Nov 1, 2007, 3:29:37 AM11/1/07
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Absorbed wrote:
> Patrick Schaaf wrote:
>> Absorbed <purestd...@hotmail.com> writes:
>>
>>> The odd thing is that some people seem to be able to crosspost and
>>> their posts appear to be published to alt.magick immediately.
>>
>> In that case, some people's local newsserver probably does not know
>> about, or honor, the moderation status of the moderated group. It will
>> then accept the post, show it to local users, try to distribute it,
>> but any receiving newsservers that do know the moderation status, will
>> drop the posting due to not being Approved. The article will not
>> propagate
>> very far, but locally everything's gonna look all right.
>>
>> I imagine that this happens a lot to almost-no-traffic moderated alt.
>> groups,
>> because nobody cares.
>>
>> An alternative to forgetting about the moderated group, is to fake
>> Approval. It's just an unprotected header line, after all, there is
>> no real security.
>
> That's interesting, thanks. I am using Thunderbird and I imagine they'll
> be an extension that allows me to do exactly that.
> Patrick Schaaf wrote:
>> Absorbed <purestd...@hotmail.com> writes:
>>
>>> The odd thing is that some people seem to be able to crosspost and
>>> their posts appear to be published to alt.magick immediately.
>>
>> In that case, some people's local newsserver probably does not know
>> about, or honor, the moderation status of the moderated group. It will
>> then accept the post, show it to local users, try to distribute it,
>> but any receiving newsservers that do know the moderation status, will
>> drop the posting due to not being Approved. The article will not
>> propagate
>> very far, but locally everything's gonna look all right.
>>
>> I imagine that this happens a lot to almost-no-traffic moderated alt.
>> groups,
>> because nobody cares.
>>
>> An alternative to forgetting about the moderated group, is to fake
>> Approval. It's just an unprotected header line, after all, there is
>> no real security.
>
> That's interesting, thanks. I am using Thunderbird and I imagine they'll
> be an extension that allows me to do exactly that.
How's this?
Patrick Schaaf
Nov 1, 2007, 6:50:24 AM11/1/07
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Absorbed <purestd...@hotmail.com> writes:
>It'll have to wait until I can be bothered to teach myself how to use
>a decent newsreader.
Bah. 'telnet news.somewhere.com 119' and speak NNTP.
Absorbed
Nov 3, 2007, 6:56:23 PM11/3/07
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Well, how about this shit?
Incidentally, I cannot be bothered learning to talk NNTP. It's really not
worth my time.
Chade
Dec 16, 2007, 2:47:26 PM12/16/07
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