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From: davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.COM (Wm E Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: Question about restricting newsgroups
Message-ID: <2762@crdos1.crd.ge.COM>
Date: 10 Oct 90 18:26:48 GMT
References: <27633@bellcore.bellcore.com>
Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.com (bill davidsen)
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Organization: GE Corp R&D Center, Schenectady NY
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In article <27633@bellcore.bellcore.com>
	snk@cellar.bae.bellcore.com (Sam Kamens) writes:

| We have been talking here in our company about using
| usenet for intra-company news, discussion of projects,
| and dissemination of information.  However, there has
| been some concern about keeping these discussions
| private within the company, or even within certain
| parts of the company.

  It is not easy to restrict the readership of groups on a given
machine. Ask again if you really want to do that. It can be done, but
there are no automated tools to do it.

  To restrict the distribution of private stuff, just don't feed it in
you sys file. For instance this machine has local ge and starix
distributions, which get fed only to selected machines. All others have
!ge,!starix in the sys file.

  Those using dynafeed (the wave of the future, for sure), can put this
in global or local rules.
-- 
bill davidsen	(davidsen@crdos1.crd.GE.COM -or- uunet!crdgw1!crdos1!davidsen)
    VMS is a text-only adventure game. If you win you can use unix.