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From: mark@cbosgd.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.women,net.news.group
Subject: Re: net.women.only
Message-ID: <221@cbosgd.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 23-Aug-83 12:43:21 EDT
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Posted: Tue Aug 23 12:43:21 1983
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There is precedent for restricted groups, e.g. btl.all is there only
for Bell Labs employees, and since proprietary things can be discussed,
we damn well make sure nobody outside BTL reads it, even if they
are interested.

In the case of a net-wide group for women, I don't see a way to prevent
men from reading it short of creating a new women.all newsgroup class,
making a new "women" group in /etc/group, and putting all women in that
group.  Then /usr/spool/news/net/women/only (or whatever) could be
mode 770, group "women".  This seems like overkill, and nothing forces
any given machine to cooperate.

As to only allowing women to post, you could make it a moderated newsgroup.
net.announce is nearly ready to start, and if you picked a name like
net.mod.women, only the moderator could post to it.  You'd need a moderator,
and probably a bug fix to 2.10 on the moderators machine.  And of course
the moderator could be fooled by some man claiming to be a woman or
forging the approval stamp, but let's hope the net is above that.

	Mark Horton