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Path: num2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!num1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!number.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border3.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!postnews.google.com!m13g2000yqb.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Message-ID: <2a30aa9b-d7c1-420b-83cc-21effa04cfd7@m13g2000yqb.googlegroups.com> From: Nuxx Bar  Newsgroups: uk.net.news.moderation Subject: Re: URCM - abuse of moderation power Date: Tue, 5 Apr 2011 16:28:49 -0700 (PDT) References: <8vtngoF3jfU1@mid.individual.net> <8vts29F6j4U3@mid.individual.net>  <528b7f35-dcd5-4837-b542-18064750f7ce@1g2000yqq.googlegroups.com> <83sjtxhw2h.fsf@chiark.greenend.org.uk> Lines: 23 Organization: http://groups.google.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 82.71.49.124 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: posting.google.com 1302046129 29438 127.0.0.1 (5 Apr 2011 23:28:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 5 Apr 2011 23:28:49 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: m13g2000yqb.googlegroups.com; posting-host=82.71.49.124; posting-account=WrLs9woAAAD151hWKA9yknAtxFHW4kE4 User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.2.15) Gecko/20110303 Firefox/3.6.15,gzip(gfe) Bytes: 2294 Xref: perfectly-safe.chapmancentral.co.uk uk.net.news.moderation:40365

On Apr 5, 10:44=A0am, Owen Dunn  wrote: > Nuxx Bar  writes: > > On Apr 4, 4:50 pm, Ian Jackson  > > wrote: > > >> The approval is simply the ordinary approval as generally applied by > >> the moderators to messages they like. > > > "Like"? =A0Revealing use of language there.... > > >> The urcm modbot is currently configured to automatically reject all > >> crossposts, before the moderators see them. > > > Then how do you explain the crossposted (and approved) URCM RFDs that > > we've previously had? > > Ian is talking about messages which are submitted by ordinary > end-users. =A0RFDs are handled differently and aren't subject to > moderation by the urcm moderators; AIUI they're injected pre-approved > by Control...

Thanks, that makes sense. (Although Ian Jackson was technically incorrect in saying "all" without qualifying it.... ;-) )