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A mid-1990s scheme letting the moderator of a moderated newsgroup sign approvals with a shared key, so news servers could automatically reject forged Approved headers. It reduced the flow of articles slipped into moderated groups without passing a moderator. Running the checks required patched server software, adoption stayed narrow, and almost no site verifies these signatures today.
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