Re: oxp: redirect - why?
  By: August Abolins to Martin Foster on Mon Sep 14 2020 00:02:00


 AA> º  You can enter a stand-in address here, to which
 AA> º  messages meant for this newsgroup will be diverted.
 AA> º  This can be another newsgroup or a user address.

 AA> I don't quite understand WHY we would need this.

think moderated newsgroups...

 AA> At first I thought it was describing a kind of
 AA> carbon-copy action. But this is an actual change of
 AA> course for messages to take?

in moderated newsgroups, all posts go directly to the moderators' email
address(es) so they can approve (or not) the message... if they approve it, a
specific control line is added to the message and it is then forwarded into
the newsgroup as an approved message... messages not approved do not appear in
the group at all...


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