Microsoft KB Archive/302365

= Items in Moderated Newsgroups Are Not Posted Until Approved =

PSS ID Number: 302365

Article Last Modified on 6/6/2003

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The information in this article applies to:


 * Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server
 * Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional
 * Microsoft Windows 2000 Server
 * Microsoft Windows NT Server 4.0

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This article was previously published under Q302365



SUMMARY
Items that are submitted to a moderated newsgroup are not posted until they are approved by the moderator for that newsgroup. When a user submits an article to a moderated newsgroup, Microsoft® NNTP Service sends the article to the newsgroup moderator.

The moderator can approve the article and send it back to the NNTP Service to be posted, or discard the article. For discarded articles, the moderator can send a message to the author of the article to explain why the article was rejected.

Any NNTP client can be used to post messages to a moderated newsgroup. However, the moderator must use an NNTP client that supports moderating functions.



Moderating Newsgroups
To use moderated newsgroups, you have to specify either a Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) mail server for sending articles directly to the moderators, or a folder where the articles are stored for the moderators.

You can also specify a default moderator domain. If you decide to use the default moderator for a newsgroup, articles are sent to @default_domain, where   is the name of the newsgroup, the periods have been replaced by hyphens. For example, articles posted to the newsgroup rec.sports.tennis, with a default domain of myserver.com, are sent to rec-sports-tennis@myserver.com.

Activate Moderated Newsgroups

 * 1) Click the Settings tab.
 * 2) In SMTP server for moderated groups, either type the Domain Name Server (DNS) name, the IP address of the SMTP server, or type the path of the folder where articles are stored for the moderators.

The folder path must be a local directory. It is best to set this value to the pickup directory of the SMTP server. By default, this directory is \Inetpub\Mailroot\Pickup.
 * 1) In Default moderator domain, type the e-mail domain for default moderators.
 * 2) Click OK.
 * 3) If you specified an SMTP server, make sure that the user ID that Microsoft NNTP Service is running under (by default the System Account) is defined as an account on the SMTP server.

To create a moderated newsgroup

 * 1) If none exists you can create the newsgroup after you finish the New Newsgroup Wizard. The procedure is the same for both new and existing newsgroups.
 * 2) In Microsoft Management Console, expand the NNTP virtual server that you want to display the Newsgroups node.
 * 3) To display all the newsgroups in the NNTP virtual server in the details pane, click Newsgroups.
 * 4) Right-click the newsgroup, and then click Properties.
 * 5) Click to select the Moderated check box.
 * 6) In the Moderator box, type the e-mail address of the moderator, or click Set Default to use the default moderator.
 * 7) Click OK.

Keywords: kbinfo KB302365

Technology: kbwin2000AdvServ kbwin2000AdvServSearch kbwin2000Pro kbwin2000ProSearch kbwin2000Search kbwin2000Serv kbwin2000ServSearch kbWinAdvServSearch kbWinNT400search kbWinNTS400 kbWinNTS400search kbWinNTsearch kbWinNTSsearch

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