Re: [Q]: Gnus and moderated ML and/or Newsgroup

[ding@daphne.gnuu.de (Thomas Hühn)]

Also sprach Jeremy Maitin-Shepard <jbms@attbi.com>:

> Just out of curiosity, I wonder why the moderation package is not
> included in the standard Gnus package.

I think this may explain it (comment from gnus-mdrtn.el):

;; This package is designed for enabling moderators to do various
;; spiffy things while moderating groups.  Some of these things are
;; rather evil if done by non-moderators -- cancelling other people's
;; articles, including Approved headers and so on.  So while this file
;; is GPL'd and there therefore is no distribution restriction --
;; please do not put this file at any public sites.  All people who
;; want a copy can get one, but let's try to keep this potentially
;; dangerous package out of the hands of Evil People, ok?  Pretty
;; please?

Whether this really works is a different question, but at least I have
not noticed anyone putting it on my.gnus.org. *g*

Thomas