From: Brad Templeton (brad@templetons.com)
Date: Thu Jul 20 2000 - 13:10:51 CDT
On Thu, Jul 20, 2000 at 10:56:26AM -0400, Bill Davidsen wrote:
> In <FxzpBz.H8v@clw.cs.man.ac.uk>,
> chl@clw.cs.man.ac.uk (Charles Lindsey) suggested:
>
> > 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.
>
> In practical terms, no it doesn't eliminate the need. Injectors mail
> the post to the moderator of the first moderated group (do we mandate
> this?) and if a moderator wants to avoid looking up the address of every
> moderator, after checking which groups are moderated, s/he rotates his
> moderated group to the end of the list and reposts.
What's this "avoid looking up the address of every moderator" stuff?
Long ago, all moderator addresses became the same pattern, and that's as it
should be. The idea of storing moderator addresses locally at each
injector is dumb, and DNS is the right way to solve the problem.
In fact, I think we should even put it in the spec if it's not there.
As such, I don't see the problem here. It should be easy for one
moderator to forward a post to another.