From: AITGW::"GIH900@SAO.AARNET.EDU.AU" "Geoff Huston" 24-FEB-1992 03:46:07.55 To: Multiple recipients of list ANU-NEWS CC: Subj: RE: creating newsgroups site-wide Received: by AITGW.DECnet (utk-mail11 v1.5) ; Mon, 24 Feb 92 03:44:17 EST Received: from vm1.NoDak.edu by aitgw.ge.com (5.65/GE Gateway 1.4) id AA25814; Mon, 24 Feb 92 03:44:04 -0500 Message-Id: <9202240844.AA25814@aitgw.ge.com> Received: from NDSUVM1.BITNET by VM1.NoDak.EDU (IBM VM SMTP V2R2) with BSMTP id 9202; Mon, 24 Feb 92 02:41:08 CST Received: from NDSUVM1.BITNET by NDSUVM1.BITNET (Mailer R2.07) with BSMTP id 2812; Mon, 24 Feb 92 02:41:06 CST Date: Mon, 24 Feb 1992 19:38:09 +1100 Reply-To: Geoff Huston Sender: ANU-NEWS Discussion From: Geoff Huston Subject: RE: creating newsgroups site-wide X-To: rainwatr@UCBEH.SAN.UC.EDU, ANU-NEWS@VM1.NODAK.EDU To: Multiple recipients of list ANU-NEWS > Two questions: > > What is the recommended method for creating a newsgroup for my >entire site? I have to create a few, some of which will be moderated. >(3 of the systems here have their own news databases, so news gets >transferred rather than read remotely.) post/control="newgroup local.annunce"/header the /header allows you to specify a Distribution keyword to keep the posting onsite. > Also, there are a couple of site-wide newsgroups that are >currently unmoderated that I would like to make moderated. How should >I go about doing that? post/control="newgroup local.annunce moderated"/header The cute thing about a newgroup message is that even if the group already exists the presence of the moderated keyword flips the newsgroup over to moderated status. Geoff