Re: No posting flag

"Charles Lindsey" <[email protected]> writes:

>>Instead of:
>
>>      newsgroups-line     = newsgroup-name
>>                               [ 1*HTAB newsgroup-description ]
>>                               [ *WSP moderation-flag ]
>>      moderation-flag     = SP "(" %x4D.6F.64.65.72.61.74.65.64 ")"
>>                               ; SPACE + case sensitive "(Moderated)"
>
>>having status-flag which can be moderation-flag or nopost-flag.
>
> Such a flag would be meaningless except in moderated groups (and one-way
> groups really OUGHT to be moderated).

It would correspond to the 'n' flag in the NNTP protocol, which does
indeed prevent posting.

> Even if your intention was that presence of the flag in a checkgroups
> would change the ACTIVE flag to 'n', no existing server would do so, and
> it would be a long time before it was widely adopted.

True, although this would hardly be the first provision in the draft that
would take a long time to be adopted.

It may be too late to be adding new features, though.

-- 
Russ Allbery ([email protected])             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>