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 [AT] foo.com
foo.*:%s [AT] mailer.com
gnu.*:%s [AT] prep.edu
*:%s [AT] uunet.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 [AT] foo.com
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foo.x.announce |
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gnu.emacs.sources |
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comp.sources.unix |
HISTORY
Written by Rich $alz <rsalz [AT] uunet.net> for InterNetNews. This is revision 1.15, dated 1996/09/06.