Subject: Moderating a group

From: [email-masked] (Simon Lyall)
Date: 29 May 1994 05:28:09 GMT

I was wondering how I approve a messge using pine?
I have set up a local group with myself as moderator and after
posting a test message it gets sent to me. I was wondering how I now
approve the messge and keep the original senders name etc intact?

						Simon.

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From: Roman Czyborra <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 30 May 1994 01:15:21 +0200

> approve the messge and keep the original senders name etc intact?

Wait for Pine 3.90 and then you can pipe the mail to some other
program that posts it, for instance: mail2news -a simon (ask archie
for the newsgate package).  On second thought, don't wait that long
but use another agent in the meantime to prevent a mutiny against you.

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From: David L Miller <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 29 May 1994 20:52:21 -0700 (PDT)

> but use another agent in the meantime to prevent a mutiny against you.

Sorry, The Pipe command in Pine 3.90 is for incoming messages only, not 
outgoing....

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From: [email-masked] (Sridhar Venkataraman)
Date: Mon, 30 May 1994 09:19:11 GMT

Roman Czyborra <[email-masked]> writes:

| > I have set up a local group with myself as moderator and after
| > posting a test message it gets sent to me. I was wondering how I now
| > approve the messge and keep the original senders name etc intact?
| 
| Wait for Pine 3.90 and then you can pipe the mail to some other
| program that posts it, for instance: mail2news -a simon (ask archie
| for the newsgate package).  On second thought, don't wait that long
| but use another agent in the meantime to prevent a mutiny against you.

Though this is out of range of comp.mail.pine, I will point the
archive for moderator software to the original poster:
ftp.sterling.com: /moderators/

You should find a file (that I contributed) to use procmail for 
moderation tasks. All you need to do after writing up a procmail script 
is "inews -h < <file>".  I have included some documentation in it.

If Pine allows piping a message to a script, that would be a pretty
useful addition for lots of things including moderation.

Sridhar.

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From: Roman Czyborra <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 30 May 1994 23:18:24 +0200

> > program that posts it, for instance: mail2news -a simon

> Sorry, The Pipe command in Pine 3.90 is for incoming messages only, not 

That doesn't matter as long as it can pipe the entire message
including the header.  Submitted articles show up as incoming messages
for the moderator.  Simon wanted to approve submissions from within
Pine.  As I said, he will need a separate tool to reformat the header
and publish it, and then he can use the pipe function.