From: Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu)
Date: Tue Nov 11 1997 - 08:18:40 CST
Simon Lyall <simon@darkmere.gen.nz> writes:
> x.x Definitions.
I'd like to see these be particularly clear in the case of moderated
newsgroups, which is where most of the confusion is at present.
> An "author" is a human being (or software equivalent) that
> composes the body of the article and decides where and how it
> will be posted.
This would be the actual author of the post, *not* the moderator, I
assume.
> An "authoring agent" is software that assists the author is
> preparing the article.
This would be the author's newsreader, in which they compose the original
post?
> A "poster" is a human being (or software equivalent) that takes
> the finished article and prepares it for submission to the news
> stream.
Would this be the moderator? Or would this still be the original author?
> A "posting agent" is software that assists posters to prepare
> articles, including determining whether the final article is
> compliant, passing it on to an injecting agent for for final
> checking and injection into the news stream if so, and informing
> the poster with an explanation if not or if the injection agent
> rejects the article.
Would this be the moderation software? Or...
> An "injecting agent" takes the finished article from the posting
> agent performs some final checks and passes it on to a relaying
> agent for general distribution.
...would this be the moderation software?
-- Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu) <URL:http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>