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From: pjg@acsu.buffalo.edu (Paul Graham)
Newsgroups: news.software.b,news.admin
Subject: Re: "fascist" option (or posting security)
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Date: 27 Apr 91 02:38:40 GMT
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henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes:
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|We've never done this in C News.  It's too easy to bypass it; the security
|is very superficial.  FASCIST is a B-News-ism.

nntp sites that run authorization can make bypassing inews a bit challenging.
some of those sites would like to use C news, if only it had a clean method
of posting restriction.

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