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From: davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.COM (Wm E Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: Passing on unwanted groups
Message-ID: <2403@crdos1.crd.ge.COM>
Date: 9 Aug 90 18:18:12 GMT
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Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.com (bill davidsen)
Organization: GE Corp R&D Center, Schenectady NY
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  This is an interesting question, so I did a little experiment. I set
the permissions on a directory in /usr/spool/news to 600. Then I
submitted an article or two. They got posted okay, but no one but news
could read them. A little playing with the setuid bit in things
connected with sendbatch, and it seems willing to send things out.

  The point of this excercise is to be able to pass a group through my
site, not allow my readers to see it, and have an expire on it
controllable at the group level.

  I make no claims that this is a perfect solution, just that it
indicates a possible solution to the problem.
-- 
bill davidsen	(davidsen@crdos1.crd.GE.COM -or- uunet!crdgw1!crdos1!davidsen)
            "Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -me