moderators - mail addresses for moderated Usenet newsgroups
The
GetModeratorAddress(3) routine reads the file
/etc/news/moderators to determine how to reach the moderator of a
newsgroup. This is used by
inews(1) when an unapproved local posting is
made to a moderated newsgroup.
The file is read until a match is found. Blank lines and lines starting with a
number sign (``#'') are ignored. All other lines should consist of two fields
separated by a colon.
The first field is a
wildmat(3)-style pattern. If it matches the name of
the newsgroup, then the second field is taken to be a format string for
sprintf(3). This string should have at most one
%s parameter,
which will be given the name of the newsgroup with periods transliterated to
dashes.
Here is a sample file:
Using the above file, postings to the moderated newsgroup in the left column
will be sent to the address shown in the right column:
Written by Rich $alz <
[email protected]> for InterNetNews. This is
revision 1.15, dated 1996/09/06.
inews(1),
inn.conf(5),
libinn(3),
wildmat(3).