XPost: alt.comp.software.thunderbird, news.software.readers   
   From: mariasophia@comprehension.com   
      
   Maria Sophia wrote:   
   > I asked the three pointed questions above to the peering ng just now:   
   >  Newsgroups: news.admin.peering   
   >  Subject: How does "moderation" work with privacy in user Usenet posts?   
   >  Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2026 12:51:31 -0500   
   >  Message-ID: <10llff3$2qqc$1@nnrp.usenet.blueworldhosting.com>   
      
   We received excellent detailed actionable answers from the peering   
   newsgroup (who, after all, are the ones who disseminated moderated   
   messages).   
      
    Approved: moderator@example.org   
      This header tells Usenet servers that the article is authorized for   
      the moderated group. The moderator's system posts from a trusted   
      host or authenticated account, so servers accept the Approved   
      article.   
      
   You can't easily spoof that approval header (nor should you!), so this one   
   header cannot be injected by the home-grown newsreader (and shouldn't be).   
      
   I love it when I (finally!) understand something down to the actual details   
   which are required to make it work from the command line in telnet/smpt!   
      
   Thank you for all your help in figuring out how Usenet moderation works   
   such that we can now add an smtp process to our home-grown newsreaders!   
   --   
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   process in the equations, there's a special quiet delight that ensues.   
      
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