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- Written 7:27 am Aug 22, 1985 by sources-request@panda in comp.sources.unix
- Note title: changes to notes
-
- Mod.sources: Volume 2, Issue 36
- Submitted by: genrad!mit-eddie!mirror!rs (Rich Salz)
-
- This note contains modifications to the latest version of notes, 1.7.
-
- The diffs listed below will modify notes (version 1.7, at least) to
- understand moderated newsgroups, as well as "local" notesfiles.
-
- In a MODERATED notesfile, any attempt to write a note or send mail
- is turned into a call that sends mail to the moderator. For example,
- is the MODERATED flag is on for net.announce, any attempt to post
- their will instead be sent as mail to mark@cbosgd.att (or whatever).
- Note that it is still possible to "Copy" a note into a MODERATED
- notesfile. This can be prohibited by (a) turning off write permission
- on the all MODERATED notesfiles, or (b) added some trivial code to
- adnote.c. I did (a); if anyone wants the code for (b), let me know.
-
- The mapping of notesfile names to moderators is done in a file
- named "moderators" in the notesfile utility directory (default is
- /usr/spool/notes/.utilities). This file contains lines like:
- notesfile_name <spaces_or_tabs> mail_address
- Blank lines, or lines starting with '#', are ignored. Here are
- a couple of lines from my "moderators" file:
-
- Here are a couple of lines from my .utilties/moderator file:
- # This comes from the posting by Gene Spafford
- # Correct addresses for mirror systems by R$, 19aug85.
- mod.map wjh12!ihnp4!cbosgd!mark
- mod.map.uucp wjh12!ihnp4!cbosgd!uucpmap
- # Here's handling an ARPA gateway'd list
- fa.laser-lover furuta%washington@cca
-
- # Here's one that we gateway ourselves
- ms.loops loops-users%berkeley@cca
- # Any valid address is ok
- ms.prisoner inmet!masscomp!allegra!sjuvax!ianucci
-
- Enough talk, here are the diffs.
- NOTE: THE RCS REVISIONS SHOW ARE WRONG. I BLEW IT!
-
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-
- By Paul Pomes, CSO, Univ of Illinois (paul@uxc.cso.uiuc.edu)
- Wed Jul 1 14:02:47 CDT 1987
-
- I've applied Rich's changes to the latest edition of notes from the UofI
- CS Dept. A few changes were made:
-
- The M,m keys in a moderated notesfile can send mail to arbitrary
- addresses. Previously mail went only to the moderator.
-
- A new note/response must be a non-zero size before the user is prompted
- for a signature file.
-
- The nfadmin program has two new flags, M and L, for setting the
- moderated and local bits in a notesfile.
-
- The notes.1 and nfadmin.8 man pages have been updated to mention the
- new NFSIG environment variable, and the behavior of local/moderated
- notesfiles.
-
- The Notesfile Reference manual has been updated as well.
-
- A complete distribution of the virgin sources, plus the RCS recorded changes,
- is available for anonymous FTP from uxc.cso.uiuc.edu:pub/Notes.tar.Z .
-
-