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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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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 ALSOinews(1), inn.conf(5), libinn(3), wildmat(3).
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