XPost: alt.comp.software.thunderbird, news.software.readers   
   From: mariasophia@comprehension.com   
      
   Carlos E.R. wrote:   
   > Like you, I have never subscribed to a moderated group, so I have never   
   > thought about it, in decades. I simply thought that the news protocol   
   > would know about it and handle it "somehow".   
      
   Thanks for discussing this topic which it seems most of us haven't thought   
   much about as we rarely post to moderated newsgroups, and, for the most   
   part, when we did, it just worked. So we didn't think much about 'how'.   
      
   I think, based on my tests, that the normal process is that the news server   
   admin decides which moderated groups he wants to peer and then he figures   
   out how each moderated group wants to be notified, where, it seems, as John   
   Gilliver noted, "in some cases there's a sort of central clearinghouse".   
      
   I think that address might be -moderated@moderators.isc.org   
   based on these tests with distinctly different results in that regard.   
      
   This news server apparently does not carry the moderated tax newsgroup.   
   But notice that it uses the "clearing house" above, plus some others.   
    Taskbar > Runbox > cmd   
    C:\> telnet news.blueworldhosting.com 119   
         200 nnrp.usenet.blueworldhosting.com InterNetNews NNRP server INN   
         2.8.0 (20250329 snapshot) ready (posting ok)   
    MODE READER   
    LIST ACTIVE misc.taxes   
         215 Newsgroups in form "group high low status"   
         misc.taxes 0000060117 0000000001 y   
         .   
    LIST ACTIVE misc.taxes.moderated   
         215 Newsgroups in form "group high low status"   
         .   
    LIST MODERATORS   
         215 Newsgroup moderators in form "group-pattern:submission-template"   
         aioe.*:%s-newsgroup@aioe.org   
         fido7.*:%s@fido7.org   
         ffm.*:%s@moderators.arcornews.de   
         fj.*:%s@moderators.fj-news.org   
         medlux.*:%s@news.medlux.ru   
         nl.*:%s@nl.news-admin.org   
         perl.*:news-moderator-%s@perl.org   
         relcom.*:%s@moderators.relcom.ru   
         si.*:%s@arnes.si   
         ukr.*:%s@sita.kiev.ua   
         *:%s@moderators.isc.org   
         .   
    QUIT   
      
   This news server apparently does carry the moderated tax related newsgroup.   
   And notice that it also uses the "clearing house" above, plus some others.   
    Taskbar > Runbox > cmd   
    C:\> telnet paganini.bofh.team 119   
         200 paganini.bofh.team InterNetNews NNRP server INN 2.6.4 ready   
         (posting ok)   
    MODE READER   
    LIST ACTIVE misc.taxes   
         215 Newsgroups in form "group high low status"   
         misc.taxes 0000060041 0000059279 y   
         .   
    LIST ACTIVE misc.taxes.moderated   
         215 Newsgroups in form "group high low status"   
         misc.taxes.moderated 0000061574 0000002149 m   
         .   
    LIST MODERATORS   
         215 Newsgroup moderators in form "group-pattern:submission-template"   
         fido7.*:%s@fido7.ru   
         ffm.*:%s@moderators.arcornews.de   
         fj.*:%s@moderators.fj-news.org   
         medlux.*:%s@news.medlux.ru   
         nl.*:%s@nl.news-admin.org   
         perl.*:news-moderator-%s@perl.org   
         relcom.*:%s@moderators.relcom.ru   
         si.*:%s@arnes.si   
         ukr.*:%s@sita.kiev.ua   
         *:%s@moderators.isc.org   
         .   
    QUIT   
      
   Note that sending the article to the first server failed, but sending it to   
   the second server seems to have not failed, but it still needs acceptance.   
      
   I had no idea of this process as I've never set up a news server myself.   
   Frank might be able to impart some insight as he was an admin in the past.   
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