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NAME

6       moderators - Submission addresses for moderated groups
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DESCRIPTION

9       When an unapproved article is posted locally to a moderated newsgroup,
10       it is not passed off to innd for normal handling; instead, it is sent
11       via e-mail to the submission address for that newsgroup.  The
12       submission address is determined using this configuration file.
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14       The file pathetc/moderators is a list of associations between uwildmat
15       patterns matching newsgroups and the submission address for those
16       newsgroups.  Blank lines and lines starting with a number sign ("#")
17       are ignored.  All other lines should consist of two fields separated by
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20           <pattern>:<address>
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22       The first field is a uwildmat pattern matching the group or groups to
23       which this line applies.  The first matching line is used, so more
24       specific patterns should be listed before general patterns.
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26       The second field, the submission address, should be a simple e-mail
27       address with one exception: at most one %s may occur anywhere in the
28       address.  If present, it will be replaced by the name of the newsgroup,
29       with all periods in the name changed to dashes ("-").  If there is a
30       literal "%" in the submission address, it must be written as "%%", even
31       if not followed by an "s".
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33       With the %s syntax, periods are converted to dashes for historical
34       reasons, from back in the days when periods in the local part of
35       addresses were not always handled correctly.  It's probably no longer
36       necessary, but so much now depends on it that it can't be easily
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39       It's intended that the sample moderators file included in the INN
40       distribution always be sufficient for all world-wide newsgroups.  The
41       hosts behind moderators.isc.org have graciously volunteered to handle
42       forwarding tasks for all world-wide newsgroups so that individual sites
43       don't have to keep track of the submission addresses for moderated
44       groups.  The forwarding database used by moderators.isc.org is
45       coordinated by <moderators-request@isc.org>; if you know of a world-
46       wide newsgroup hierarchy that is not correctly handled by
47       moderators.isc.org, please send the details to that address.
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49       Given that, the only thing you should have to add to the sample file
50       under normal circumstances are the forwarding addresses for local or
51       limited-distribution moderated groups.
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53       If this file doesn't exist, or if a post is made to a moderated group
54       that has no matching entry in this file, nnrpd falls back on the value
55       of moderatormailer set in inn.conf and, failing that, rejects the post.
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EXAMPLES

58       Here is a sample file:
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60           example.important:announce@example.com
61           example.*:%s@smtp.example.com
62           *:%s@moderators.isc.org
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64       Using the above file, postings to the moderated newsgroup in the left
65       column below will be sent to the address shown in the right column
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68           example.important   announce@example.com
69           example.x-announce  example-x-announce@smtp.example.com
70           alt.dev.null        alt-dev-null@moderators.isc.org
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72       Note that periods are changed to dashes and dashes are left alone with
73       the %s syntax, so two moderated newsgroups whose names differ only by
74       changing a period to a dash would go to the same address.  Such
75       newsgroup pairs should therefore not be created.
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HISTORY

78       Written by Rich $alz <rsalz@uunet.uu.net> for InterNetNews.  Rewritten
79       in POD by Russ Allbery <eagle@eyrie.org>.
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SEE ALSO

82       inn.conf(5), libinn_uwildmat(3), nnrpd(8).
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