Re: MODERATOR (NOT MODERATORS?) FOUND for rec.photo.moderated, comp.std.announce, comp.newprod, and comp.simulation

Hi Marco,

The only issue, and I'm not sure if it's an issue, might be the
NNTP servers willing to accept postings from these distributed
neo-Robomod instances. I got the impression from past discussion
that some (most?) NNTP servers don't accept moderators posting
approved articles through them, or require personal requests to
allow it.

 This is needed to keep the concept of moderated groups. Otherwise
anybody could post messages with an Approved: header.

Indeed.  Also, one should also take into consideration anti-spam/abuse mitigation.  Ideally, setting up pgpmoose or like.
   https://wiki.killfile.org/projects/usenet/pgpmoose/
Tim mentions that he can watch newsgroups and send the related NoCeM messages to cancel unwanted articles posted with an Approved header field in moderated newsgroups, but I don't know how many such newsgroups are watched and whether his robot still work.
I think this is a useful service to have in Usenet moderation.  And I agree there should be more than one watching robot.  Adding new NoCeM keys can take ages as they need being manually added by news administrators, so the best is to have current NoCeM senders doing that :)
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Julien ÉLIE
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