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MODERATORS(5)					    MODERATORS(5)

NAME
       moderators - submission addresses for moderated newsgroups

DESCRIPTION
       When an unapproved article is posted locally to	a  moder-
       ated  newsgroup,	 rather	 than being passed off to innd(8)
       for normal handling, it's instead sent via e-mail  to  the
       submission  address for that newsgroup.	The file <pathetc
       in inn.conf>/moderators lists the submission addresses for
       moderated  newsgroups.	This  file  is	used by nnrpd(8),
       inews(1), and any other program that uses  the  GetModera-
       torAddress() routine (see libinn(3).)

       The  moderators	file  is  a  list of associations between
       wildmat(3) patterns matching newsgroups and the submission
       address	for  those  newsgroups.	  Blank	 lines	and lines
       starting with a number  sign  (``#'')  are  ignored.   All
       other  lines  should consist of those two fields separated
       by a colon.

       The second field, the submission address, may have at most
       one  %s	anywhere in it; if present, this will be replaced
       by the name of the  newsgroup  with  periods  replaced  by
       dashes.	 If  there  is	a literal ``%'' in the submission
       address, it must be written as ``%%'' (even  if	not  fol-
       lowed by an ``s'').

       Here is a sample file:

	      example.important:announce-request@example.com
	      example.*:%s@smtp.example.com
	      gnu.*:%s@prep.ai.mit.edu
	      *:%s@moderators.isc.org

       Using  the above file, postings to the moderated newsgroup
       in the left column will be sent to the  address	shown  in
       the right column:

	      example.important	   announce-request@example.com
	      example.x.announce   example-x-announce@smtp.example.com
	      gnu.emacs.sources	   gnu-emacs-sources@prep.ai.mit.edu
	      comp.sources.unix	   comp-sources-unix@moderators.isc.org

       Periods	are  converted	to dashes for historical reasons,
       from back in the days when periods in the  local	 part  of
       addresses  may not be handled correctly.	 It's probably no
       longer necessary, but so much now depends on  it	 that  it
       can't be easily changed.

       It's  intended that the sample moderators file included in
       the INN distribution always be sufficient for  all  world-
       wide newsgroups.	 The hosts behind moderators.isc.org have
       graciously volunteered to handle forwarding tasks for  all
       world-wide  newsgroups so that individual sites don't have

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MODERATORS(5)					    MODERATORS(5)

       to keep track of the submission	addresses  for	moderated
       groups.	  The	forwarding   database	used  by  modera-
       tors.isc.org is coordinated by moderators-request@isc.org;
       if  you	know  of a world-wide newsgroup hierarchy that is
       not correctly handled by moderators.isc.org,  please  send
       the details to that address.

       Given  that,  the only thing you should have to add to the
       sample file under normal circumstances are the  forwarding
       addresses  for  local  or  limited  distribution moderated
       groups.

HISTORY
       Written by Rich $alz  <rsalz@uunet.uu.net>  for	InterNet-
       News.  This is revision 1.1.2.1, dated 1999/06/12.

SEE ALSO
       inews(1), inn.conf(5), libinn(3), wildmat(3).

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