From: David Iain Greig (dgreig@darwin.ediacara.org)
Date: Fri Jul 26 2002 - 13:22:35 CDT
I use a hacked version of the soc.singles.california modbot;
your encapsulated emails will simply bounce if they lack a
Newsgroups: header, since they will be mis-formatted.
It is actually possible that accepting your articles would force
me to break the newsgroup charter forbidding editing of posts.
--D.
-- david iain greig greig@ediacara.org moderator, talk.origins sp4 kox http://www.ediacara.org/~greig arbor plena alouattarumOn Fri, Jul 26, 2002 at 10:43:30AM -0700, Jay Denebeim wrote: > On Fri, 26 Jul 2002, Charles Lindsey wrote: > > > However, we are fully aware that saying "Moderators SHOULD" is not > > the same as saying that "Moderators WILL". Time will tell, but at the > > least those words should ensure that people who write general purpose > > moderbots such as STUMP do it correctly. > > Just so you know, as the author of the second most popular 'general > purpose' modbot I'm planning to do it correctly. In this case that means > bounce the encapsulated messages. Oh, and another thing, there is no such > thing as a 'general purpose' modbot (other than the one I was writing > awhile back) even STUMP has to be taylored individually to every newsgroup > it's used on. That means that old copies of it won't get updated so the > current default behavior is what you're stuck with. > > IOW your new format messages will bounce until someone technical does > something, this is not a resource available to many moderation sites. As > long as you're okay with breaking most moderation sites, I guess that's > your perogative. Don't expect your 'standard' to be widely adopted though > installing a version of a news server that causes all your users who post > to moderated groups to scream is not going to be a popular option with > almost all newsadmins. > > Jay > > -- > * Jay Denebeim Moderator rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5.moderated * > * newsgroup submission address: b5mod@deepthot.org * > * moderator contact address: b5mod-request@deepthot.org * > * personal contact address: denebeim@deepthot.org * >