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How do I create a moderated list?

A moderated list means that every submission to the list goes through your list maintainer before it actually gets posted to the list.

(1) First create a file named "moderators."
It should contain the fully qualified mail addresses of all the moderators for this list (i.e. just
local user names are not sufficient, at least include an @host or host! ).

(2) Then uncomment the appropriate "moderated_flag" line in rc.custom.

From then on all mail that does not contain an "Approved: the_address_of_one_of_the_moderators" field is forwarded to all the moderators.

One of the moderators should then re-send the mail to the list after adding an "Approved: his_own_address" field to the header (and possibly editing the contents of the mail). It will be no problem if several moderators resubmit the same submission concurrently, since the mailinglist will filter out duplicates anyway (i.e. only the first one will go out and be archived).


 

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