Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!aplcen!samsung!think!snorkelwacker!apple!escher From: escher@Apple.COM (Michael Crawford) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.appletalk Subject: Re: Secure NetNews HyperCard Stack. Message-ID: <8426@goofy.Apple.COM> Date: 25 May 90 18:14:46 GMT References: <3012.9005241522@crete.cs.glasgow.ac.uk> <1624@amethyst.math.arizona.edu> Organization: Apple Computer Inc., Cupertino, CA Lines: 48 In article <1624@amethyst.math.arizona.edu> face@arizona.edu (Chris 'Face' Janton) writes: >In article <3012.9005241522@crete.cs.glasgow.ac.uk> inei@cs.glasgow.ac.uk >(Nick Nei) writes: >> our Computing Science Department. It worries me that any person >> can post news. While I can trust members of staff, I cannot trust >> students not to abuse this privilege. >At least at our site... The ability to post news can be controlled on a >per system basis, meaning that unless the nntp server allows my Mac to >post I can't do a news post. I can send mail, with responses going into >the bitbucket if I don't have an account on the sending system. > >Simply put you should be able to prohibit posting on a system by system >basis. Only allow those systems that you want to post news. > >Am I confused? Yes. Anyone who can send mail to the Internet can post news. I understand the way you would post to this group would be to send mail to: comp-protocols-appletalk@uunet.uu.net or any other Usenet/Internet backbone site. I believe this mechanism is provided to allow those without newsfeeds to post questions that can be replied to via normal mail -- it works via UUCP gateways into the Internet, like my link with ucscc mentioned below. There are also a number of mailing lists that are repeated to the news. I don't see any reason why you should go to much trouble to prevent people from posting. A more reasonable thing to do would be to have pnews (which does the actual posting) examine a list of approved posters. The way to get on that list would be to attend a one or two hour course at your computer center on how to use the news readers, Usenet etiquette, and so on. Those too lazy to attend the course can figure out how to post via the mail gateways. Make faculty and staff take this course too, unless they have been posting for a long time. Either they observe the etiquette, or they are immune to having it taught them. -- Michael D. Crawford Oddball Enterprises Consulting for Apple Computer Inc. 606 Modesto Avenue escher@apple.com Santa Cruz, CA 95060 Applelink: escher@apple.com@INTERNET# oddball!mike@ucscc.ucsc.edu The opinions expressed here are solely my own. alias make '/bin/make & rn'