From: Andrew Gierth (andrew@erlenstar.demon.co.uk)
Date: Sat Apr 29 2000 - 00:20:43 CDT
>>>>> "Charles" == Charles Lindsey <chl@clw.cs.man.ac.uk> writes:
Charles> If the article is rejected, then it fails for all the newsgroups
Charles> for which it was intended (in particular the moderator MUST NOT
Charles> resubmit the article, with a reduced Newsgroups header, to any
SHOULD NOT.
Charles> 2. The Date header MUST be retained,
SHOULD
(perhaps a note for these two that points out that authentication systems
employed by the poster or previous moderators may be broken by changing
these. But there are valid policy reasons for allowing both changes in
special situations.)
Charles> 3. He adds an Approved header (6.12) containing a mailbox identifying
Charles> himself (or, if the article already contains an Approved header
Charles> from another moderator, he adds that identifying information to
Charles> it). He MAY also add further headers to authenticate that the
Charles> article has been properly approved.
Charles> [That can be strengthened when we have defined proper authentication
Charles> mechanisms.]
One scheme for doing moderator-crossposting is broken by this.
Charles> 4. If the Newsgrpups header contains further moderated newsgroups for
Charles> which approval has not already been given,
But no mechanism is provided for determining whether approval has been
given or not.
Solving the moderator-crossposting problem requires more work than this.
Charles> he forwards the article
Charles> to the moderator of the leftmost such group (which, if this
Charles> standard has been followed correctly, will always be the group
Charles> immediately to the right of the group(s) for which he is
Charles> responsible). However, he MUST NOT alter the order in which the
Charles> newsgroups are listed in the Newsgroups header.
this also disallows an otherwise viable solution for moderator
crossposting.
-- Andrew.