bionic (5) moderators.5.gz

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NAME

       moderators - mail addresses for moderated Usenet newsgroups

DESCRIPTION

       The  GetModeratorAddress(3)  routine  reads  the  file /etc/news/moderators to determine how to reach the
       moderator of a newsgroup.  This is used by inews(1) when  an  unapproved  local  posting  is  made  to  a
       moderated newsgroup.

       The  file  is read until a match is found.  Blank lines and lines starting with a number sign (``#'') are
       ignored.  All other lines should consist of two fields separated by a colon.

       The first field is a wildmat(3)-style pattern.  If it matches the name of the newsgroup, then the  second
       field  is  taken to be a format string for sprintf(3).  This string should have at most one %s parameter,
       which will be given the name of the newsgroup with periods transliterated to dashes.

       Here is a sample file:
              foo.important:announce-request@foo.com
              foo.*:%s@mailer.foo.com
              gnu.*:%s@prep.ai.mit.edu
              *:%s@uunet.uu.net
       Using the above file, postings to the moderated newsgroup in the left column will be sent to the  address
       shown in the right column:
              foo.important       announce-request@foo.com
              foo.x.announce      foo-x-announce@mailer.foo.com
              gnu.emacs.sources   gnu-emacs-sources@prep.ai.mit.edu
              comp.sources.unix   comp-sources-unix@uunet.uu.net

HISTORY

       Written by Rich $alz <rsalz@uunet.uu.net> for InterNetNews.  This is revision 1.15, dated 1996/09/06.

SEE ALSO

       inews(1), inn.conf(5), libinn(3), wildmat(3).

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