Help with Usenet moderation needed urgently

[Bill Horne]

Bob Leigh wrote:
> Dan wrote:
>   
>>> need to receive the email which goes to the moderator's address,
>>> and inject the messages into an ordinary news server along with
>>> the new header:
>>>
>>> Approved: yes
>>>       
>
> It's been a long time since I worked with this stuff, but...
>
> Doesn't the news server in question need to recognize that Bill
> _is_ the moderator?  Surely not just anyone can approve messages by
> adding an Approved header to their posts!

If it did, we'd never see spam or velveeta on newsgroups!

I've already posted to the group, just by adding an Approved: header in
Thunderbird and doing everything else the normal way. However, in order
to preserve author's ID's and threads, I must find a way to post
approved articles with headers intact. The inews man page says it will
accept a file as input, but I'm missing some critical setting: I tried
using rnews instead, but I'm getting a system-level error about a value
being out of domain.

All suggestions welcome.

Bill Horne
781-784-7287



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