moderated groups Re: ietf-nntp BCP for RFC977 server/RFC1036 interaction

[Jack De Winter]

As a 977bis related note, would a formal definition of the moderation
mechanism be out of scope?  Personally, I am not 100% sure myself on
how the process of moderated newsgroups work (don't actually use any
myself).  

If it does not fit into 977bis, I would very much like to see it in the
BCP.

Also, if someone could send me a quick little writeup of it via
private email (jack at wildbear.on.ca), I would be willing to pretty
it up for whichever document it should fit into.

regards,
Jack

>> It would also require the gateway to know, e.g., about the moderated
>> status of anything it gateways.
>
>Hum, that's true.  Well, you could allow postings from localhost 
>through.  Again, that's something that could be site configurable.  It is 
>something that only a handful of people are going to want, and I am more 
>interested with what should be done on 99% of the hosts rather than the 
>remaining 1% (actually, I suspect that in this case it is _much_ less 
>than 1%).

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