usefor-usepro-00 August 2004

7.3.  Procedure for Forwarding to a Moderator

   An injecting agent forwards ar article to a moderator as follows:

   1. It MUST forward it to the moderator of the first (leftmost)
      moderated group listed in the Newsgroups-header via email (see 7.7
      for how that moderator may forward it to further moderators).
      There are two possibilities for doing this:

      (a)  The complete article is encapsulated (headers and all) within
 the email, preferably using the Content-Type
 "application/news-transmission" (5.1) with any usage
 parameter set to "moderate". Moreover, there SHOULD NOT be
 more than one encapsulated article within the one email.
 This method has the advantage of removing any possible
 conflict between Netnews and Email headers, or of changes to
 those headers during transport through email.

      (b)  The article is sent as an email as it stands, with the
 addition of such extra headers (e.g. a To-header) as are
 necessary for an email.

      Although both of these methods have seen use in the past, the
      preponderance of current usage on Usenet has been for method (b)
      and many moderators are ill-prepared to deal with method (a).
      Therefore, method (a) SHOULD NOT be used until such time as the
      majority of moderators are able to accept it.

   2. This standard does not prescribe how the email address of the
      moderator is to be determined, that being a matter of policy to be
      arranged by the agency responsible for the oversight of each
      hierarchy. Nevertheless, there do exist various agents worldwide
      which provide the service of forwarding to moderators, and the
      address to use with them is obtained as follows:

      (a)  Each '.' in the newsgroup-name is replaced with a '-'.

      (b)  The result of these operations is used as the local-part of
 the mailbox of the agent. For example, articles intended for
 "news.announce.important" would be emailed to "news-
 announce-important@forwardingagent.example".