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From: news@drivax.UUCP (Wayne Davison)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: newgroup avalanche protection
Message-ID: <2508034F.5C72@drivax.UUCP>
Date: 8 Sep 89 18:22:06 GMT
Reply-To: davison@drivax.UUCP (Wayne Davison)
Organization: Digital Research, Monterey CA
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The recent rash of bogus newgroup messages has reminded me that I'm glad
I made a change to my newgroup script file (in C news) to totally ignore
messages that were approved by above-user@above-host. The change is very
simple:

*** newgroup.orig	Wed Aug 23 14:57:07 1989
--- newgroup	Wed Aug 23 17:07:27 1989
***************
*** 14,20 ****
  cat >$F
  
  # unapproved ctl msg? then quit
! grep -s '^Approved:' $F >/dev/null || { rm -f $F; exit 0; }
  
  SENDER="`grep '^Sender:' $F | sed 's/^[^:]*: *//'`"
  case "$SENDER" in
--- 14,23 ----
  cat >$F
  
  # unapproved ctl msg? then quit
! APPROVER="`grep '^Approved:' $F | sed 's/^[^:]*: *//'`"
! case "$APPROVER" in
! ""|above-user@above-host)	rm -f $F; exit 0;;
! esac
  
  SENDER="`grep '^Sender:' $F | sed 's/^[^:]*: *//'`"
  case "$SENDER" in
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