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NAME

       moderators - submission addresses for moderated newsgroups

DESCRIPTION

       When  an  unapproved  article is posted locally to a moderated newsgroup, rather than being passed off to innd(8) for normal handling, it's
       instead sent via e-mail to the submission address for that newsgroup.  The file	<pathetc  in  inn.conf>/moderators  lists  the	submission
       addresses  for  moderated  newsgroups.	This file is used by nnrpd(8), inews(1), and any other program that uses the GetModeratorAddress()
       routine (see libinn(3).)

       The moderators file is a list of associations between wildmat(3) patterns matching newsgroups and the submission address  for  those  news-
       groups.	 Blank	lines and lines starting with a number sign (``#'') are ignored.  All other lines should consist of those two fields sepa-
       rated by a colon.

       The second field, the submission address, may have at most one %s anywhere in it; if present, this will be replaced  by	the  name  of  the
       newsgroup  with	periods  replaced by dashes.  If there is a literal ``%'' in the submission address, it must be written as ``%%'' (even if
       not followed by an ``s'').

       Here is a sample file:

	      example.important:announce-request@example.com
	      example.*:%s@smtp.example.com
	      gnu.*:%s@prep.ai.mit.edu
	      *:%s@moderators.isc.org

       Using the above file, postings to the moderated newsgroup in the left column will be sent to the address shown in the right column:

	      example.important    announce-request@example.com
	      example.x.announce   example-x-announce@smtp.example.com
	      gnu.emacs.sources    gnu-emacs-sources@prep.ai.mit.edu
	      comp.sources.unix    comp-sources-unix@moderators.isc.org

       Periods are converted to dashes for historical reasons, from back in the days when periods in the local part of addresses may not  be  han-
       dled correctly.	It's probably no longer necessary, but so much now depends on it that it can't be easily changed.

       It's  intended  that  the  sample moderators file included in the INN distribution always be sufficient for all world-wide newsgroups.  The
       hosts behind moderators.isc.org have graciously volunteered to handle forwarding tasks for all world-wide  newsgroups  so  that	individual
       sites  don't  have  to  keep track of the submission addresses for moderated groups.  The forwarding database used by moderators.isc.org is
       coordinated by moderators-request@isc.org; if you know of a world-wide newsgroup  hierarchy  that  is  not  correctly  handled  by  modera-
       tors.isc.org, please send the details to that address.

       Given  that,  the only thing you should have to add to the sample file under normal circumstances are the forwarding addresses for local or
       limited distribution moderated groups.

HISTORY

       Written by Rich $alz <rsalz@uunet.uu.net> for InterNetNews.  This is revision 1.6, dated 1999/05/09.

SEE ALSO

       inews(1), inn.conf(5), libinn(3), wildmat(3).

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