1 What is News Management?
1.2 Newsgroup moderator
In order to keep the volume of off-topic traffic in a newsgroup to a minimum,
postings to that group may be subject to the approval of a person who has been
designated the newsgroup moderator. All items posted by anyone else into that
newsgroup are mailed to the moderator, instead of being added to the newsgroup
immediately. The moderator then decides whether the item is appropriate, and if
so, adds it to the newsgroup with an Approved: header indicating that sites
should accept it as an item in that newsgroup. If an item is posted to multiple
newsgroups, it is not actually added to any of them until it has been approved
by the moderators of all moderated newsgroups to which it has been posted. In
addition, a newsgroup moderator may cancel any posting to that newsgroup,
regardless of where it originated. There is only one moderator for a given
newsgroup, who handles traffic originating from any site. In practical terms,
this means that you don't have to worry about moderated newsgroups unless the
moderator lives at your site.
ANU News understands this model of newsgroup moderation, and will handle
moderated newsgroups correctly. If a newsgroup moderator is located at your
site, he or she will use the Add File/Moderator command to add approved
postings to the newsgroup. In addition, he or she will have all the privileges
of newsgroup supervisor (see below) with respect to that group at your site. If
the moderator is located at another site, News takes care of checking for
approval, and mailing new postings to the moderator, automatically.
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