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Subject: Re: pre approved postings for moderated lists
From: Paradise Cowgirl <minerva @ teleport . com>
Date: Thu, 28 Apr 1994 13:39:19 -0700 (PDT)
To: Arnold de Leon <arnold @ Synopsys . COM>
Cc: majordomo-users @ GreatCircle . COM
In-reply-to: <199404282012.NAA20900@mango.synopsys.com>

On Thu, 28 Apr 1994, Arnold de Leon wrote:

> resend assumes that it finds an "Approved" header in the
> body that the header is about to follow. 
> Unfortunately this may not always be true.
> 
> In particular I would like to have several lists
> moderated by non unix types.  These lists are typically
> announcement type lists.  The indiviual making the
> initial posting is typically going to be the moderator.
> Unfortunately they won't have easy means of inserting
> an "Approved" line as part of the header.
> 
> But if they insert the "Approved" line in the body
> resend will expect headers to follow.  Since there
> won't be any, the result is missing headers.
> 

The way around this is for the moderator to use the built
in process of the moderator sending the announcement to the list (without
doing any thing for approval) and used the bounced back version
which will include the original headers.

Yes, this is an extra step :-)


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