hi chris, On Wed, 12 May 93 09:14:33 CDT you said: >I am about to become a newsgroup moderator of a pre-exisiting Usenet >newsgroup. Do you have any suggestions as to what I should do to make >my life a little easier? > >Here's the specifics: Currently, all the posts come in via mail to the >moderator who scans through them, collects the 'good' ones, sends all >the posts out together, and distributes (somehow) the posts to those >people that read their news via email. He's doing all this via a unix >machine. > >Well, since I'm using VM/CMS (and NNR), his method and scripts won't do >me alot of good. I asked for suggestions from the MAILBOOK and >NETNWS-L listserv lists, and a few people have suggested that I create >a listserv list for the folks who get their posts via email, make it so >that I am the only one that can send to the list (ie. Send=Editor, >[log in to unmask]) and add a tag in the header of >Newsgroups=my.group.name (which, btw, I couldn't find documented >anywhere). My question is: how does LISTSERV know how to get the post >into Usenet? Nowwhere have I told it what or where to find our Usenet >host. Also, doen't moderated newsgroups have to have an "approved" >tag on them - if so, how do I get that appended to the header? > >If it matters, we have NNR set up to use NNTP to read it's posts from >another machine on campus (ie. there is no DVM to send the posts to on >the local machine). with release 1.3.2 nnr will allow a user to post to a moderated newsgroup. on the posting screen you will notice an auxiliary header line where the "Approved:" header could be suppled. it is not currently setup in a way that will provide for production management of a moderated newsgroup. what is needed is a way to take a piece of mail from a notebook preserving pertinent header information and prompt for the newsgroup. let me look into the matter and get back to you off-line. /pc >Thanks in advance > > ----------------------------------------------------- >Chris Barnes | President - Bryan/College Station >[log in to unmask] | Retriever Club >(409) 846-3273 (home) | "Dedicated to the betterment of >(409) 845-8300 (work) | the retrieving breeds" >