rec.music.gaffa moderated!
Jennings_Richard/...@hpopd.hp.com
rec.music.gaffa, along with lots of other groups is a moderated news group.
Unfortunately, moderated news groups don't map terribly well into the notes
world, still, that's life.
If an administrator doesn't set the permissions for moderated groups so that
users can't write to the group, then the note passes through the network until
it hits a site running News. At this point, the site will spot that the
article is for a moderated group, and redirect it to the moderator via mail.
Unfortunately, this is likely to mean that lots of News sites will all forward
the original note to the moderator, who then gets very annoyed...
In the case of rec.music.gaffa however, the moderator doesn't manually
sift the submissions much these days (too busy a life), so the group itself
receives n-million duplicate copies; as has happened just recently.
Hope this helps,
richi. (One-time part-time notes admin.)