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- From: irilyth@fenris.claremont.edu (Josh Smith)
- Subject: Re: Rec.arts.cinema : rmgroup?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec31.164525.8357@muddcs.claremont.edu>
- Originator: irilyth@fenris
- Sender: news@muddcs.claremont.edu (The News System)
- Organization: Evil Geniuses For A Better Tomorrow
- References: <C04FtH.MLx@polaris.async.vt.edu> <1992Dec31.133214.21063@cbnewsj.cb.att.com> <1992Dec31.140135.2335@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 16:45:25 GMT
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- Joel Furr (jfurr@nyx.cs.du.edu) writes:
-
- > Unfortunately, I don't think it works like that. I've read here in
- > news.groups many times that the *only* way to fix a munged moderatorship
- > is to rmgroup the group *entirely* and start it over as a new group with a
- > new moderator or without a moderator at all. Any other discussion, offers
- > to moderate, etc. etc. ignores the way news software works at many sites.
-
- I don't actually know how this works either, but from what I've read in this
- group and related groups, my impression was that the problem was only if you
- tried to unmoderate a moderated group. Some news software will apparently
- still think the group is moderated, and forward everything posted to the
- group on to the old moderator. My impression was that changing the identity
- of the moderator wasn't a problem, but that convincing stubborn software
- that there wasn't a moderator at all was.
-
- Anyone at all authoritative actually know for sure?
- --
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