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From: jeff@voder.UUCP (Jeff Gilliam)
Newsgroups: net.news
Subject: Re: cleaning up the net -- software solutions proposed
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Date: Mon, 22-Jul-85 04:23:55 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jul 22 04:23:55 1985
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> In article <2162@sdcrdcf.UUCP> jonab@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Jonathan Biggar) writes:
> >
> >A new suggestion:  Have all of the Subject and Newsgroups lines of locally
> >posted articles mailed to the SA every day.  This would allow responsible
> >SAs to keep reign on local users without having to read all of the news 
> >to find any offenders.  This could be easily done with a sed or awk script
> >that looks through the /usr/lib/news/log file.

I just wanted to mention that 2.10.2 (at least) already allows
something of the sort.  The relevant portion of my sys file follows.
This allows me to see every article that my user population posts to
the net.  Obviously, we can't force every news SA to monitor their
users this way, but if *you* want to, you can.

#
# send every locally generated article here.
# allows local administration to censure if/when necessary.
#
usenet:net,fa,mod,ba,ca,usa,na:L:/bin/mail usenet
#

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Jeff Gilliam	{ucbvax,ihnp4!nsc}!voder!jeff