XPost: alt.comp.software.thunderbird, news.software.readers   
   From: robin_listas@es.invalid   
      
   On 2026-02-01 15:21, J. P. Gilliver wrote:   
   > On 2026/1/31 18:2:38, Adam H. Kerman wrote:   
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   >> In olden days, every News server had to maintain a list of submission   
   >> addresses in a moderators file. It was recognized that these addresses   
   >   
   > OK, so the default is that news clients (for the users using them) send   
   > posts to moderated 'groups to the normal server rather than direct to   
   > the moderator(s). I did not know that. (Also see below.)   
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   >>> If the _client_ does it - which would seem a more efficient way, after   
   >>> all why involve the newsserver if that can be avoided - then the list of   
   >>> newsgroups must contain a flag for the ones that are moderated, so that   
   >>> the client knows to treat posts to it differently. (Posts _in_ it - i.   
   >>> e. from other posters, that have already been passed by the moderator[s]   
   >>> - can be treated the same as those in any other 'group.)   
   >>   
   >> You are speaking of treating a submission address like the submission   
   >> address of a moderated mailing list. It can certainly be done by an   
   >> email client.   
   >>   
   >> It's impossible for the newsreader to submit it because the newsreader   
   >> isn't an email client.   
   >   
   > Good point, which I hadn't thought of. (I've always used combined   
   > software - either one that does both like Turnpike or Thunderbird, or [I   
   > think - long ago!] a suite that combined them, like modified KA9Q.)   
      
   In Linux (and Unix), any program can submit an email. It is part of the   
   system.   
      
   Of course, in many home systems this method is not configured and will fail.   
      
      
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