[leafnode-list] Moderated groups problem

[Robert Marshall]

On Sat, 10 Sep 2005, David Aldred wrote:

> 
> Following up on Robert's post, I had noticed that moderated articles
> weren't getting through to a moderated group.  Checking as he has, I've
> found that I too have lost most of the moderated flags.

I assume you also saw my uk.r.c post where I'd noticed the problem? I've
just posted there again and it leaves my news spool so the mod status is now
correct at this end

> 
> (I also found that I had two versions of leafnode installed
> simultaneuously, got myself in a mess sorting it out, so now have a clean
> Leafnode install - but those moderated flags are still missing.  It may
> be that the particular group I need to be right - uk.religion.christian -
> is set incorrectly on the upstream sever).
> 
> So I've tried setting the flag in groupinfo myself, but this doesn't seem
> to work either.  .

This worked for me 

     uk.religion.christian 0000201183 0000190789 m

Just as another datapoint

grep Moderated /var/spool/news/leaf.node/groupinfo | grep "	y	" | wc
   2053   19796  146404
grep Moderated /var/spool/news/leaf.node/groupinfo | grep "	m	" | wc
  10109  124204 1047533

so there's considerably more correct than wrong (though 7000 of those are
gmane groups which aren't supplied by the other servers and none of those
appear to be incorrectly flagged). Yes I know not all moderated groups have
Moderated in the description but it's a starting point


> 
> I've set the moderation address for the newsgroup I want to be my won
> email address for the moment, to avoid annoyance when it does start
> working.  I post stuff, and nothing turns up in my mailbox.
> 
> So why isn't it working as I expect?  I must have something wrong...
> 
> Some possbly useful stuff:
> 
> # grep uk.religion.christian /var/spool/news/leaf.node/groupinfo
> uk.religion.christian   m       469     2       1126344546      -x-

Unless something is converting tabs to spaces you need tabs (I think!) as
separators in groupinfo

Robert
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