7.2.3. 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 7.8 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. The existing Message-ID-header SHOULD be retained. 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".[< Prev] [TOC] [ Next >]
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--- ../usefor-usepro-00/Procedure_for_Forwarding_to_a_Moderator.out August 2004 +++ ../usefor-usepro-01/Procedure_for_Forwarding_to_a_Moderator.out September 2004 @@ -1,9 +1,9 @@ -7.3. Procedure for Forwarding to a Moderator +7.2.3. 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 + moderated group listed in the Newsgroups-header via email (see 7.8 for how that moderator may forward it to further moderators). There are two possibilities for doing this: @@ -18,7 +18,8 @@ (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. + necessary for an email. The existing Message-ID-header SHOULD + be retained. Although both of these methods have seen use in the past, the preponderance of current usage on Usenet has been for method (b)