[DIS] Moderation

Hmmmmmm moderation in a group not ending in .moderated - bad design that.

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On 10 May 2004 "Peter Hucker" <pet...@btconnect.com> wrote in
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> Hmmmmmm moderation in a group not ending in .moderated - bad
> design that. 

Plenty of groups are like that. Your newsreader almost certainly gets 
the information from the server when it gets the newsgroup name. It is 
a shame that so few bother displaying this info to the reader.

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On Mon, 17 May 2004 08:59:56 -0700 (PDT), Graham Drabble <gra...@lineone.net> wrote:

> On 10 May 2004 "Peter Hucker" <pet...@btconnect.com> wrote in
> news:bH5...@lios.aq2.gweep.ca:
>
>> Hmmmmmm moderation in a group not ending in .moderated - bad
>> design that.
>
> Plenty of groups are like that. Your newsreader almost certainly gets
> the information from the server when it gets the newsgroup name. It is
> a shame that so few bother displaying this info to the reader.

There is information?  I will have to look into this.  Where is it?

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"Peter Hucker" <pet...@hucker.plus.com> wrote:

>> Plenty of groups are like that. Your newsreader almost certainly gets
>> the information from the server when it gets the newsgroup name. It is
>> a shame that so few bother displaying this info to the reader.
>
>There is information?  I will have to look into this.  Where is it?

It's in the active file. When your news reader updates its group list,
it does not only get the name of the group, but as well article
counters (so that it can show an estimate of how many articles will be
in that group) and a flag - which can be y (unmoderated), n (no
posting allowed) or m (moderated). Unfortunately, most readers ignore
that flag. 

Look at 40tude Dialog (www.40tude.com) - this news reader will show a
microphone icon next to every moderated group and a hand icon next to
every read-only group. (BTW I think Dialog is one of the best news
readers available - when you look at functionality. It is a bit buggy
sometimes, but that might be because it is still beta.)

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