Trouble with Approved line

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David Novak (director@cn.net.au)
Tue, 23 Sep 1997 11:24:29 +0800

I've done this process in reverse : start by making an FAQ, get approval for
it, then sent it out with the approved header to what I felt may be
appropriate newsgroups.

And in case your curious, the headers look like this:

From: david@cn.net.au (David Novak)
Date: 27 Jul 1997 07:59:23 GMT
Newsgroups:
sci.research,comp.infosystems.www.announce,comp.answers,sci.answers,news.answers
Subject: Professional Research FAQ v.1.2
Followup-To: poster
Approved: news-answers-request@MIT.EDU
Summary: Professional Research FAQ: Method, Resources & Training
...

Now the odd thing was that the approved message appears to have
automatically authorized my post onto several moderated newsgroups (which I
have removed from the above headers).

After the accusations of forging approval headers and eviction notices from
the Internet subsided I learned my lesson, but also a glitch in the system
where
Approved: news-answers-request@MIT.EDU
appears to approve posts to newsgroups like sci.maths.research and others.

Has anyone else encountered this?

The best defence is to perhaps mention it to new FAQ maintainers in their
welcome message (Please??) I may save others the anger and confusion I've
just enjoyed.

Oh, and welcome all, My name is David and I live in Perth Australia.

David
Community Networking
david@cn.net.au