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From: bandy@lll-crg.ARpA (Andrew Scott Beals)
Newsgroups: net.news.group
Subject: keeping your boss off of the net
Message-ID: <1076@lll-crg.ARpA>
Date: Thu, 28-Nov-85 09:54:18 EST
Article-I.D.: lll-crg.1076
Posted: Thu Nov 28 09:54:18 1985
Date-Received: Fri, 29-Nov-85 11:08:47 EST
References: <10108@tardis.UUCP> <949@unmvax.UUCP> <561@brl-sem.ARPA> <576@mit-eddie.UUCP>
Reply-To: bandy@lll-crg.UUCP (Andrew Scott Beals)
Distribution: net
Organization: Computation Research Group, Lawrence Livermore Labs
Lines: 21
Keywords: anarchy, :-)
Summary: hack the software, don't tell anyone

In article <576@mit-eddie.UUCP> gds@mit-eddie.UUCP (Greg Skinner) writes:
>"Each site guru" does not necessarily have the authority to allow or
>prevent people access to USENET.

But s/he does have the power. Example follows.

>There might be a situation where the supervisor of an SA is posting
>obnoxious articles -- what could the SA do in that case, order
>his/her boss of the net?  

Well, you could try. :-) But I think that perhaps a software
solution is in order. Just "fix" inews such that people in group X
got only local distribution on their articles...
-- 
There once was a fellow named Moorehead,
Who had an affair with a warhead.
  His wife moved away
  The very next day--
She /was/ always kind of a sorehead.

andy beals - bandy@lll-crg.arpa - {seismo,ihnp4!sun,dual}!lll-crg!bandy