Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!convex!killer!vector!rpp386!jfh
From: jfh@rpp386.Dallas.TX.US (The Beach Bum)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: Purposes of group
Message-ID: <7829@rpp386.Dallas.TX.US>
Date: 13 Oct 88 15:34:45 GMT
References: <6798@ig.ig.com> <312@fsc2086.UUCP> <10639@netsys.COM>
Reply-To: jfh@rpp386.Dallas.TX.US (The Beach Bum)
Organization: River Parishes Programming, Dallas TX
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In article <10639@netsys.COM> len@netsys.COM (Len Rose) writes:
>This is why having an arrangement in the software so that only
>news administrators could post to news.admin would be beneficial.
>
>It is pretty high on my wish list for the next generation of news
>software.

As has been repeatedly stated, this already exists.

The FASCIST option can be used to keep individuals out of any group
you would want to.  doing

#define	FASCIST "all,!news.admin"

should suffice.
-- 
John F. Haugh II (jfh@rpp386.Dallas.TX.US)                   HASA, "S" Division

      "Why waste negative entropy on comments, when you could use the same
                   entropy to create bugs instead?" -- Steve Elias