1.3. How are they connected? (Gaffa - Love-Hounds)
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This article is from the Gaffa - Love-Hounds - Kate Bush FAQ, by Ulrich Grepel uli@zoodle.robin.de with numerous contributions by others.
1.3. How are they connected? (Gaffa - Love-Hounds)
To ensure that every message from the newsgroup rec.music.gaffa also
finds its way into the mailing list Love-Hounds, rec.music.gaffa is
a moderated newsgroup. This means that to post an article to r.m.g
you have to send it as an email message to the moderator who has to
approve the article. In r.m.g's case the 'moderator' is the receiving
address for the list, i.e. love-hounds@gryphon.com. More intelligent
news software does know about this and if you post an article instead
of sending it to the moderator's address these systems act in one
of three ways:
1. Your article is thrown away. This is the reason why a lot of new
readers don't find their articles in the news system. If you
experience this, you have to use the love-hounds@gryphon.com
address by yourself.
2. Your article is repackaged and forwarded to the moderator. While
doing this, the news software insists on creating a new header.
This is responsible for most of the postings with some news system
as the sender and without any subject. It may be the case that your
article actually is shown correctly on your news system, especially
if the system forwarding it to the moderator isn't yours. In this
case you might wonder why replies or follow-ups to your articles
don't have any subject. If you experience this, you should either
bug your system administrator (to change the behaviour to the third
one below) or use the email address.
3. Your article is directly forwarded to the moderator. This is
perfectly ok, since then your name and subject lines survive.
Be assured again that no article you write is thrown away due to its
contents or your person. It's just the wrong way of posting it, since
the whole process is fully automated.
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