R.Wieser wrote:
You might not see this 'cuz a "real" newsreader would likely have emailed >>> the moderator directly
Why ?
Why would the moderator want to receive - and put into a newsgroup - a post >> which you could not read the responses to ?
Hi Rudy,
You know what I like about you? It's you ask questions about concepts that
I hadn't even thought of for a single moment, since I run a tight ship.
Given I care about privacy, I never use the same newsserver to read from as
I do to write to, so any given newsgroup could be on one but not the other.
But if you hadn't asked that question, I wouldn't have even thought to tell people this since I do a billion things for privacy by design like that.
On Fri, 30 Jan 2026 13:35:43 +0100, Carlos E.R. wrote:
* The Workflow: Instead of appearing immediately, posts to moderated
groups (e.g., rec.food.recipes) are sent to a moderator. The moderator
reviews them to ensure they follow the group's charter, then publishes
approved messages to the Usenet server.
I was a moderator for a group years ago. The name escapes me but we used a service to coordinate the moderation. It was inexpensive and the several moderators chipped in to pay the cost.
The newsgroup still exists but hasn't had moderators for about 20 years.
From the user side, how did it work?
For example, when posting, Thunderbird would automatically send an email
to the moderator list, and would find out this address automatically?
Carlos E.R. wrote:
˙From the user side, how did it work?
For example, when posting, Thunderbird would automatically send an
email to the moderator list, and would find out this address
automatically?
Not exactly.
Tb 'tries to' post to the ng via nntp; but in a mod group, the news
server doesn't 'just' post it; instead the news server 'auto' emails it
to an .isc address ie group-name@moderators.isc.org. That address is configured to email 'forward' it to the ng's moderators of record.
The ng's moderators of record have their 'own' system of handling the
msg. Theoretically it could be handled by human eyeballs and hands, but
more like the mod mail has some auto-handling of its own.
If the msg is 'ok' then it gets posted to the group via having an appropriate header prepended.
On Fri, 30 Jan 2026 14:27:09 -0800, Mike Easter wrote:
Tb 'tries to' post to the ng via nntp; but in a mod group, the news
server doesn't 'just' post it; instead the news server 'auto' emails it
to an .isc address ie group-name@moderators.isc.org. That address is configured to email 'forward' it to the ng's moderators of record.
I wish I could remember the name of the intermediary service we used. When someone posted the moderators got an email notification and one would approve or deny the post. It streamlined the process.
It was a lot of work to strain out a few people. This wasn't the group but if you go to alt.pagan and download a couple of months worth of headers you'll meet the famous David Dalton. He has an obsession with Sarah McLachlan and is usually way off his meds. He's still going strong after
all these years, the sole poster in abandoned ngs.
I wasn't too enthusiastic about the moderation and tended to be liberal in allowing posts. Other than the odd nutter the really divisive topic was Viktor Rydgerg's theories on Norse mythology.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viktor_Rydberg
On 1/02/2026 9:07 pm, Kerr-Mudd, John wrote:
On 31 Jan 2026 03:05:28 GMT
rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:
On Fri, 30 Jan 2026 14:27:09 -0800, Mike Easter wrote:
Tb 'tries to' post to the ng via nntp; but in a mod group, the news
server doesn't 'just' post it; instead the news server 'auto' emails it >>> to an .isc address ie group-name@moderators.isc.org. That address is
configured to email 'forward' it to the ng's moderators of record.
I wish I could remember the name of the intermediary service we used. When >> someone posted the moderators got an email notification and one would
approve or deny the post. It streamlined the process.
It was a lot of work to strain out a few people. This wasn't the group but >> if you go to alt.pagan and download a couple of months worth of headers
you'll meet the famous David Dalton. He has an obsession with Sarah
McLachlan and is usually way off his meds. He's still going strong after >> all these years, the sole poster in abandoned ngs.
He appears (out of his depth) in a few other NGs. At least he's stopped wanting to find the ark of the covenant (was it?) buried under Stonehenge.
"Stonehenge"?? I thought The Ark of The Covenant was on Mt Ararat in
Turkiye or some such!!
PS it's spelled 'Turkey' in English. If you're a Turk, you need to put
double dots on the last 'e' in Turkiye, IIRC.
I thought, over the past few years there had been a
swing in English Media to use "Turkiye".
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