From: Charles Lindsey (chl@clw.cs.man.ac.uk)
Date: Mon Jul 24 2000 - 11:35:05 CDT
In <ylzon91st3.fsf@windlord.stanford.edu> Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu> writes:
>I think the right way of really solving this problem, rather than hacking
>around it, is to associate approvals with specific groups. Then it's a
>matter of forwarding the article to some moderated group for which it has
>not already been approved.
>I should be able to do things like that, and all the ordering hacks make
>this unnecessarily hard. The ordering hacks have the advantage of working
>without any changes in the semantics of the Approved header, but we don't
>necessarily have that restriction.
I think you would need to invent a new header for this job, because some
systems would just post the article to the net as soon as they saw an
Approved header of any sort.
But you could perhaps rely on smart injectors to insert the conventional
Approved header as soon as they saw a complete collection of New-Approved
headers (complete according to their local active file, that is).
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