Re: [leafnode-list] /var/spool/news/backup.moderated

[Joerg Dietrich <joerg@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Aug 27, 2002 at 12:08:43AM +0200, Matthias Andree wrote:
[backup.moderated]
> Everybody feel free to suggest how to treat articles stored there from
> within leafnode.

I am against storing them there altogether. It is not the task of
a local newsserver to play backup for broken upstream servers. In
there case that a newsmaster messed up the status or moderators
file, the user should just beat him very hard. Most newsreaders
anyway allow (and will by default) archive outgoing postings. I
see no need for additional redundancy in a newsserver whose jobs
it is to just pass along the articles it receives.

If somebody has a sloppy newsmaster upstream and still wants to
keep that server as first server, he should simply add the
appropriate entries to the local moderators file.

Cheers,
	Jo:rg

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