Help with Usenet moderation needed urgently

[billhorne-Wuw85uim5zDR7s880joybQ at public.gmane.org (Bill Horne)]

Dan Ritter wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 11, 2007 at 05:28:57PM -0400, Bill Horne wrote:
>   
>> Thanks for reading this.
>>
>> The moderator of comp.dcom.telecom has suffered a stroke, and I've been 
>> asked to fill in while he recovers. I've installed inn2 on my Debian 
>> server, but am unable to get it working in a reasonable amount of time: 
>> I've been trying to use inews to feed articles to a couple of different 
>> servers, and I keep getting a "441" error saying I'm not authorized.
>>     
>
> You don't need to run a news server to be a moderator. You just
> need to receive the email which goes to the moderator's address,
> and inject the messages into an ordinary news server along with
> the new header:
>
> Approved: yes
>
>   

Dan,

Thanks for the info: I apologize for not providing more information.

I have shell access to the moderator's BSD account, but he has a system 
set up with custom scripts and I can't learn it in any timely fashion, 
so I have his (i.e., the approval) address forwarded to my server. I'm 
getting the submission OK, but when I try to use inews to submit an 
article I have approved, I get an error:

    telecom-digest at billhorne:~$ inews -h <filename>
    inews: cannot send article to server: 441 You are not allowed to
    post to comp.dcom.telecom
    inews: article not posted
    telecom-digest at billhorne:~$

I've been reading the man pages for passwd.nntp, nnrp.access, inn.conf, 
and anything else I could think of, with no success: AFAICT, the files 
are set up correctly. I installed inn2 in the hope that the default 
files/binaries would be the "missing link", but no joy.

All suggestions welcome.

Bill Horne
781-784-7287


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