What happens to articles in a moderated newsgroup?
When someone tries to post a news article to a moderated group, the local news server software automatically intercepts the post, and e-mails it to a moderation address for processing by the moderator. If the local news software cannot handle this, the poster could manually e-mail the article to the moderation address directly. Once the message reaches the moderation address, it may be handled by a human moderator, or forwarded to one of a panel of moderators, or filtered by some form of moderation software. If a message is approved and posted by a moderator, it appears on the moderator’s news server and then spreads to other news servers. Note that newsgroup moderation has some similarities to mailing list operation – messages go to a hub, and are then redistributed. An attempt to cross-post a message to a moderated group and to other newsgroups will go to the moderation address for the moderated group, and will not show up in any of the other groups on the local server unless and unt
