Help with Usenet moderation needed urgently

[Dan Ritter]

On Sat, Aug 11, 2007 at 08:30:53PM -0400, 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!

You have just discovered the secret of alt.sysadmin.recovery, a
moderated Usenet group with no moderator.

(Now we must kill you. Sorry.)

-dsr-


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