>Does anyone use Yarn and/or Yarn+something to moderate a Usenet
>newsgroup?
Yes. I tried to use some of the add-ons to alter the headers on the
fly, but couldn't get them to work, for various reasons.
Of course, I have submissions all filtered to a pseudo-newsgroup, so
they don't get lost in my inbox. What I do now is to save the
submission, with headers, to a temp file. I then get out of Yarn, and
run a little batch file. This batch file:
(a) saves my config file,
(b) opens that temp file so I can highlight and copy the From line,
(c) opens the config file for editing. I use the copied From
line to populate the user, name and host.
(d) The batch file then opens up Yarn, where I start a new post to the
moderated newsgroup, and then copy in a set of skeleton headers, and
variously delete or alter the necessary lines to create a valid
post, and then shut down Yarn.
(e) The batch file then copies my saved config file back to its proper
location.
Then I repeat the process for any other submissions I may have.
Yes, it sounds cumbersome, and is nearly 100% manual, but it works for
me, as the newsgroup I moderate has very low traffic...3-4 posts a day.
All of the above takes me maybe 5 minutes, more or less. And, I
actually have config files pre-written for some of my more frequent
contributors, so I can skip over some of the steps here. I have another
batch file, with a parameter, that just does steps a, d and e.
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