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From: sow@eru.mt.luth.se (Sven-Ove Westberg)
Newsgroups: news.software.nntp
Subject: Re: Need FASCIST checking in NNTP inews
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Date: 30 Oct 88 11:09:46 GMT
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In article <999@ksuvax1.cis.ksu.edu> tar@ksuvax1.cis.ksu.edu (Tim Ramsey) writes:
|I have a machine which reads news via a NNTP server on another machine.  I
|need to restrict what groups a user may post to without restricting reading.
|
|It seems to me the easiest way to do this is to implement FASCIST mode
|checking in the "mini-inews" provided with the NNTP distribution.  Has anyone
|implemented this in mini-inews?  Has anyone modified the real inews to post
|to a NNTP server?
|
|Am I missing an easier way?

No!  But a facist option in the mini-inews will NOT help. You just have to
do "telnet host nntp" and you are free do give whatever answers you want.
You can ONLY restrict the usage of news to a particular host.

Sven-Ove Westberg, CAD, University of Lulea, S-951 87 Lulea, Sweden.
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