From Newsgroup: news.admin.technical

Hi Adam,

Usenet has been doing moderation in a somewhat useless manner forever.
The proto article probably should have been an attachment to have
something useful on Path.

FWIW, RFC 5537 defines an application/news-transmission media type
intended for the encapsulation of news articles. See Section 4.1:

Optional parameters: One and only one of "usage=moderate",
"usage=inject", or "usage=relay".

Encoding considerations: A transfer-encoding different from that
of the article transmitted MAY be
supplied to ensure correct transmission
over some 7bit transport medium.

Body part: A complete proto-article ready for
injection into Netnews or an article
being relayed to another agent.


Nevertheless, I am not aware of implementations. When forwarding the
article to approve to a moderator, the news server needs knowing whether
the moderator can handle that (new) media type. Some kind of up-to-date configuration telling which format to use (plain or encapsulated) for
each moderation address has to be set up and maintained.

I am unsure that it will be implemented and widely adopted one day,
given the complexity of the change in an environment where some/most
servers are no longer updated.

If anyone has any proposal on that subject, feel free to tell!
--
Julien |eLIE

-2-aI don't know if it's what you want, but it's what you get.-a-+ (Larry
Wall)


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