Guy Macon wrote:
> Jerry Avins wrote:
>> Guy Macon <http://www.guymacon.com/>
wrote:
>>
>>> For those here who are involved in Product Development,
>>> I would like to invite you to try out the newsgroup that
>>> I moderate: misc.business.product-dev -- a Usenet newsgroup
>>> about the Business of Product Development.
>>>
>>> The group has been pretty much unused for a long time, but
>>> could become viable if I can attract a critical mass of
>>> users.
>>>
>>> Right now I am screening posts to avoid spam, and setting
>>> the software to auto-approve any further posts by that user.
>>> This avoids posting delays after the user's first post.
>>>
>>> If I can attract enough users to see the volume pick up,
>>> I will be looking for co-moderators. I have a simple
>>> web-based system that makes it easy to reject/approve
>>> posts.
>>>
>>> There will be little or no rejection because of content;
>>> I just want to keep the newsgroup flooders and spammers
>>> out, and let people use their killfiles if they don't
>>> like what someone posts.
>>>
>>> Also, unlike many other moderated newsgroups, I allow
>>> crossposts to one unmoderated newsgroup, so you can post
>>> something that is about FORTH and Product Development
>>> in comp.lang.forth and misc.business.product-dev if
>>> you wish.
>>>
>>> Alas, I can't allow crossposts to moderated newsgroups
>>> because such posts get approved for both newsgroups
>>> when one moderator approves them, which would be rude
>>> to the other moderator.
>> I don't know the mechanism for that, but it seems strange to me in my
>> ignorance.
>
> Here is how it works:
>
> When you post to a newsgroup, your post goes to your chosen news
> server. The news server looks at the post and compares it to its
> list of which groups are moderated. If none of the groups are
> moderated, it goes out at once to all the other news servers.
>
> If any of the groups are moderated *and* the post has no
> "Approved:" header, the post is emailed to the moderator's
> article submission address. If the moderator (or, in my
> case, automoderation software) approves the post, he adds
> an "Approved:" header and posts it to his news server, which
> sends it out to all of the other news servers.
>
> What happens when there are two moderated newsgroup is not
> defined. What would be ideal is that each moderator gets
> it in turn, and both have to approve. What actually happens
> is that one of the moderators gets it and, if he approves it,
> it gets posted to both newsgroups. In practice, this never
> happens because most moderators filter out any crossposts
> before seeing them. I had to ask the developer of the
> automoderation software to create a special setup to allow
> people to crosspost to one additional newsgroup, but only if
> it isn't moderated.
Thanks for the explanation. It's enlightening to look under the hood.
Jerry
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