• Re: The perils of writing your own newsreader - the perils of posting to moderated newsgroups

    From Carlos E.R.@robin_listas@es.invalid to alt.free.newsservers,news.software.readers,alt.comp.os.windows-11 on Fri Jan 30 22:46:17 2026
    From Newsgroup: alt.comp.os.windows-11

    On 2026-01-30 19:30, rbowman wrote:
    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?
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    Cheers, Carlos.
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