> ...
> the implication of their asking you to
> submit the FAQ by posting it is that if they approve it, it will be posted,
> just as other moderated newsgroups work. (Is that mistaken?)
Quite. Wasn't I clear enough for you? The moderators will NOT repost
that article. It will never appear anywhere except in their inbox.
In fact, they don't ever repost ANY articles.
Until you receive approval, you should continue to post your FAQ on
your regular schedule to its home newsgroups (but not to *.answers).
When you get approval, you add *.answers to your newsgroup line and
insert an Approved: line, then continue to post on your usual schedule.
The readers of your home newsgroups will hardly notice the change.
There will be no duplicate posting unless you make one.
Possibly what's confusing you is that the moderated-newsgroup mechanism
is not used in its usual fashion for *.answers. It is used only to
send unapproved articles to the moderators for review. Posters of
approved articles are expected to forge an Approved: line so that their
article propagates normally, *without* going through the moderators.
Otherwise the moderators would be even more overworked than they are now.
regards, tom lane
PS to moderators: evidently the section of the intro documents covering
this stuff is still not clear enough. I realize that you are loathe to
explain the approval-forgery bit in publicly posted documents, but perhaps
you could find the time to go over those paragraphs again...
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