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From: munnari!csc.anu.oz.au!gih900@UUNET.UU.NET (Geoff Huston)
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Subject: RE: "Problem with kill filters and read-only newsgroups"
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Date: 26 Oct 89 01:53:29 GMT
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Another bug report which has (finally) been acted on:...
     
Date:         Wed, 12 Jul 89 11:13:38 -0100
From: Dick Sloetjes
 <sloetjes%PHILTIS.CFT.PHILIPS.NL%VM1.NoDak.EDU@murtoa.cs.mu.oz>
Subject:      "Problem with kill filters and read-only newsgroups"
     
>At our site we have many newsgroups which are READ only for most
>users. One of our users had discovered the following problem. "He
>isn't able to define a kill filter for such a (READ only)
>newsgroup". At this moment I have debuged NEWS and saw that in
>do_kill() parse_newsgroups() is called.
>
>In parse_newsgroups() the routine auth_list() deletes the
>newsgroup names in which the user may not post. So he isn't able
>to define a kill filter either.
>
>My question: Is it possible to fix this bug in 58B and/or future
>releases?
     
Yes- this will be fixed in the 5.9B release - thanks for the work in tracking
down the problem - it has made it far easier to make the necessary changes.
     
Geoff