I noticed I have 6gb of blocked articles in my emp.phn logfile so I
thought I would investigate.
It appears that groups that are moderated got a lot of messages blocked
since it seems the mod approves them in batches.
One thing I've not see is how to inject messages back into the newsfeed >either from a single file of articles or a number of separate files.
I'm sure I'm not the only one to have come across this and wonder how
other admins have solved the issue.
Nigel Reed <sysop@endofthelinebbs.com> wrote:
I noticed I have 6gb of blocked articles in my emp.phn logfile so I
thought I would investigate.
It appears that groups that are moderated got a lot of messages
blocked since it seems the mod approves them in batches.
One thing I've not see is how to inject messages back into the
newsfeed either from a single file of articles or a number of
separate files.
I'm sure I'm not the only one to have come across this and wonder how
other admins have solved the issue.
I'm not pretending to be a News administrator here, but it's my
understanding that the tradition is to allow the moderator to perform
spam countermeasures, and that Cleanfeed should be bypassed.
Only if there is some sort of attack on the moderated newsgroup in
question should the issue be handled locally, by temporarily rejecting
all messages till the attack is dealt with.
Nigel Reed <sysop@endofthelinebbs.com> wrote:
I noticed I have 6gb of blocked articles in my emp.phn logfile so I
thought I would investigate.
It appears that groups that are moderated got a lot of messages
blocked since it seems the mod approves them in batches.
One thing I've not see is how to inject messages back into the
newsfeed either from a single file of articles or a number of
separate files.
I'm sure I'm not the only one to have come across this and wonder how
other admins have solved the issue.
I'm not pretending to be a News administrator here, but it's my
understanding that the tradition is to allow the moderator to perform
spam countermeasures, and that Cleanfeed should be bypassed.
Only if there is some sort of attack on the moderated newsgroup in
question should the issue be handled locally, by temporarily rejecting
all messages till the attack is dealt with.
One thing I've not see is how to inject messages back into the newsfeed either from a single file of articles or a number of separate files.
Nigel Reed wrote:
One thing I've not see is how to inject messages back into the
newsfeed either from a single file of articles or a number of
separate files.
That won't work without modifying history (or waiting for the history
entries to expire and temporarily setting artcutoff high enough that
the messages are not rejected as "too old").
-thh
On Wed, 21 May 2025 22:11:45 +0200
Thomas Hochstein <thh@thh.name> wrote:
Nigel Reed wrote:
One thing I've not see is how to inject messages back into the
newsfeed either from a single file of articles or a number of
separate files.
That won't work without modifying history (or waiting for the history
entries to expire and temporarily setting artcutoff high enough that
the messages are not rejected as "too old").
-thh
Apart from the some text and test groups, I do not expire articles.
artcutoff is 0. Again, Nobody seems to be able to answer the question
of how do I inject the articles back into the newsfeed.
On May 21, 2025 at 5:21:04 PM CDT, "Nigel Reed"
<sysop@endofthelinebbs.com> wrote:
On Wed, 21 May 2025 22:11:45 +0200
Thomas Hochstein <thh@thh.name> wrote:
Nigel Reed wrote:
One thing I've not see is how to inject messages back into the
newsfeed either from a single file of articles or a number of
separate files.
That won't work without modifying history (or waiting for the
history entries to expire and temporarily setting artcutoff high
enough that the messages are not rejected as "too old").
-thh
Apart from the some text and test groups, I do not expire articles. artcutoff is 0. Again, Nobody seems to be able to answer the
question of how do I inject the articles back into the newsfeed.
The easiest tool to work with, in my opinion, is rnews. It is
included with INN. From the manpage:
rnews injects either individual articles or UUCP-style article
batches into a local or remote news server. It submits articles via
IHAVE and is suitable for injecting articles received from other
sources; local postings should generally use inews(1) instead. It is
also used to process spooled messages created by, for example, nnrpd
while innd is not available.
Again, Nobody seems to be able to answer the question
of how do I inject the articles back into the newsfeed.
On Wed, 21 May 2025 22:11:45 +0200
Thomas Hochstein <thh@thh.name> wrote:
Nigel Reed wrote:Apart from the some text and test groups, I do not expire articles.
One thing I've not see is how to inject messages back into theThat won't work without modifying history (or waiting for the history
newsfeed either from a single file of articles or a number of
separate files.
entries to expire and temporarily setting artcutoff high enough that
the messages are not rejected as "too old").
artcutoff is 0. Again, Nobody seems to be able to answer the question
of how do I inject the articles back into the newsfeed.
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