From: Charles Lindsey (chl@clw.cs.man.ac.uk)
Date: Thu Jul 20 2000 - 04:35:58 CDT
In <200007190755.JAA28417@beatles.cselt.it> Maurizio Codogno <mau@beatles.cselt.it> writes:
>Charles:
>> Some recent discussion cross-posted between news.groups and
>> uk.net.news.management (now there's an unlikely combination) has
>> highlighted a practice sometimes used when a post is made to multiple
>> moderated newsgroups.
>I still have mixed feelings about crossposting to multiple
>moderated newsgroups.
>In it.*, we ruled this out unless the moderators agree in
>advance (for example, while sending FAQs to the relevant group
>and it.faq). I don't think that the current status of
>affairs allows a nice way to perform multiple approvation, and
>besides, multiple approvations for "general" articles add to the latency
>time between composition and publication of the article.
Yes, a given hierarchy can deprecate it, but you cannot forbid it on
Usenet as a whole.
One suggestion made was that each moderator in the chain should insert an
X-Part-Approved header identifying himself. Then the final moderator would
recognise that the set was complete and do the final Approved. That way
you avoid any supposed need to alter the order of the Newsgroups line.
Might or might not be a good idea to leave the X-Part-Approved headers in.
I heard from Brad that he thought we should ignore the reordering problem
(i.e. treat it as broken behaviour, and if signatures failed as a reult,
then tough).
BTW, will Brad please reply to this list, and not to me personally. I
don't want copies of posts, and I do not feel obliged to respond to
messages not made to this list.
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