NAME

     moderators - mail addresses for moderated Usenet newsgroups

DESCRIPTION

     The   GetModeratorAddress(3)   routine   reads   the    file
     /usr/local/news/etc/moderators to determine how to reach the
     moderator of a newsgroup.  This is used by inews(1) when  an
     unapproved local posting is made to a moderated newsgroup.

     The file is read until a match is found.   Blank  lines  and
     lines  starting with a number sign (``#'') are ignored.  All
     other lines should consist of  two  fields  separated  by  a
     colon.

     The first  field  is  a  wildmat(3)-style  pattern.   If  it
     matches  the name of the newsgroup, then the second field is
     taken to be a format string  for  sprintf(3).   This  string
     should  have  at  most one %s parameter, which will be given
     the name of the newsgroup  with  periods  transliterated  to
     dashes.

     Here is a sample file:
          foo.important:announce-request@foo.com
          foo.*:%s@mailer.foo.com
          gnu.*:%s@prep.ai.mit.edu
          *:%s@uunet.uu.net
     Using the above file, postings to the moderated newsgroup in
     the  left  column  will  be sent to the address shown in the
     right column:
          foo.important       announce-request@foo.com
          foo.x.announce      foo-x-announce@mailer.foo.com
          gnu.emacs.sources   gnu-emacs-sources@prep.ai.mit.edu
          comp.sources.unix   comp-sources-unix@uunet.uu.net

HISTORY

     Written by Rich $alz <rsalz@uunet.uu.net> for  InterNetNews.
     This is revision 1.15, dated 1996/09/06.

SEE ALSO

     inews(1), inn.conf(5), libinn(3), wildmat(3).