54036 - can't cancel spam messages on mozilla.reviewers

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 26248

(mozilla.org Graveyard :: Server Operations, task, P3)

Description

[Brendan Eich [:brendan]]

Up until today, I could cancel spam messages to mozilla.reviewers, but now I
need to enter a news server admin name and password.  Yet I just canceled such
a spam message over in mozilla.jseng.  What's up?  Can I get cancel privileges 
in m.reviewers restored?  Thanks, 

/be

Comment 1

[Mark Inokuchi]

I compared the access control rules for mozilla.jseng and mozilla.reviewers and
they are identical. If you're coming from the mozilla.org domain you will have a
moderator role and moderator is defined as having "cancel" permissions. Can you
try again? If not please let me know what the article number is so I can do more
investigating.

Access Control Rules for: netscape.public.mozilla.jseng

   If                                   Then
   Users: Groups: Host:             Auth by:  Allow role of: Continue Set from
 1 Anyone Anyone    *               default      poster               [root]
 2 admin            *               default      manager              [root]
 3 Anyone Anyone    *               default      poster               netscape
 4 moz              *.netscape.com  default      poster               netscape
 5 Anyone Anyone    205.217.227.10, default      poster               netscape
                    205.217.227.11   
6 Anyone Anyone    *                default     moderator        netscape.public
7 jcape            *                basic       moderator        netscape.public
8 Anyone Anyone   *.netscape.com   default      cancel          netscape.public
9 Anyone Anyone   *.mozilla.org    default     moderator netscape.public.mozilla


Access Control Rules for: netscape.puiblic.mozilla.reviewers

If                                   Then
   Users: Groups: Host:             Auth by:  Allow role of: Continue Set from
 1 Anyone Anyone    *               default      poster               [root]
 2 admin            *               default      manager              [root]
 3 Anyone Anyone    *               default      poster               netscape
 4 moz              *.netscape.com  default      poster               netscape
 5 Anyone Anyone    205.217.227.10, default      poster               netscape
                    205.217.227.11   
6 Anyone Anyone    *                default     moderator        netscape.public
7 jcape            *                basic       moderator        netscape.public
8 Anyone Anyone   *.netscape.com   default      cancel          netscape.public
9 Anyone Anyone   *.mozilla.org    default     moderator netscape.public.mozilla

   

Comment 2

[Dawn Endico]

brendan, are you using a different client than before? From what I understand,
Netscape doesn't let you delete other people's posts although real newsreaders
do (like trn). Not sure whether mozilla does or not.

Comment 3

[Brendan Eich [:brendan]]

I can cancel when reading via snews://news.mozilla.org, using Netscape 4.72 on
Windows at home.  I think 4.x on Unix just didn't handle canceling.

/be

Comment 4

[Risto Kotalampi]

Moving to nobody until we have better picture of where we'll be going with 
mozilla.org support by IC.

Comment 5

[Dawn Endico]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 26248 ***

Comment 6

[timeless]

vrfy dupe