VeriMod

A robot moderation package for Unix

Developed by Tim Skirvin

VeriMod is set of moderation programs, written in perl, based around a common module and sharing common datafile formats. It supports many standard message fixes, message scoring, and...well, I refuse to write a features page until it's done.

This is, obviously, a work in progress.

faqpost

faqpost is an proof-of-concept script that might actually be useful. It's a simple FAQ poster that signs messages with PGPMoose and maintains Expires and Supersedes headers; it's based around News::Article, but has some of News::Verimod's stuff tossed in for good measure.
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Battloid

Battloid is a robot moderator designed to take care of virtually all of the work of moderating a newsgroup. All messages are either approved, rejected, or forwarded to the moderators based on the message alone; administration must take place at the moderation site. As yet, it's still unavailable, though it is being tested on humanities.philosophy.objectivism and news.admin.net-abuse.policy.

Guardian

Guardian is a robot moderator that is a split between the Fighter and Battloid ModBots. Guardian pre-screens all incoming messages; these messages are then either approved, rejected, or mailed to the moderators for review. The moderators can choose to either submit a fixed version of the post through normal channels, or can send authenticated commands to the 'bot directly.

Fighter

Fighter is a robot moderator designed to pre-process messages for review by a moderator or moderation team. All posts received to the moderation address are sent to the moderators for review; the moderators can then send majordomo-like commands to the ModBot to actually process the message. It is designed to minimize network traffic and generally be secure (well, as secure as Usenet's going to get, anyway).

Officer's Battlepod

Officer is a client script for the various types of VeriMods.

Destroid

Destroid is a web-based client for the various VeriMods.

Gerbil

(Rename: for spotting forgeries)

Last one

(The cronjobs)