OT: mail-news gateway question

[Karl Pflästerer]

On Mon, 06 May 2002, Grant Edwards <- grante at visi.com wrote:
> If a group is moderated, where does the e-mail happen?  
[...]
> news server software (whatever's at the other end of the NNTP
> connection) that checks to see if a group is moderated and send
> the e-mail?

Yes. The newsserver knows (should know) which groups are moderated. If
you try to post to such a group, the software searches an
approved:-header. It doesn't matter what the entry is. If such a header
is found, the posting gets inserted in the NG if not the posting is send
to the moderators adddress of that NG. There may be cancelbots that
check the correctness of the approved:-header.

bye
   KP

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