[OT] Crossposting and moderation (was: semaphores not usable ...)

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Date: Sat, 23 Oct 2004 08:15:20 GMT

Kasper Dupont writes:
>Grumble wrote:
>> comp.lang.asm.x86 is a moderated newsgroup.
>
>I realized that when a modified version of my posting
>showed up later.

My newsreader (xrn) notifies me of the moderation status when I submit
the posting (only after mailing, you would probably prefer another
chance at changing the Newsgroups: line). Maybe you should send a
feature request to the maintainers of your newsreader.

>I never use any moderated groups.
>This obviously shows there is something wrong with the
>implementation of moderation. The fact that the other
>group is moderated should not prevent the message from
>showing up in cold.system.

It must. A crossposting is just a single posting that is visible in
all the groups it is posted to. So if the news servers accepted it
without approval, it would show up in the moderated group without
approval. Therefore it has to be approved by the moderator before
being posted.

>Crossposting is often a bad idea, and even worse it
>seems if one of the groups is moderated.

It's even funnier when several of the groups are moderated.

Certainly crossposting without setting Followup-to: to a single group
is a bad idea.

Followups to poster (off-topic).

- anton

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