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From: pf@csc.ti.com (Paul Fuqua)
Newsgroups: news.groups,news.sysadmin
Subject: Re: restrict access to a newsgroup (was Re: Proposal for comp.security)
Message-ID: <62754@ti-csl.CSNET>
Date: 5 Nov 88 10:29:36 GMT
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    Date: Friday, November 4, 1988  8:39am (CST)
    From: asp at cos.com (Andrew S. Partan)
    Subject: Re: restrict access to a newsgroup (was Re: Proposal for comp.security)
    Newsgroups: news.groups,news.sysadmin

    It is possible to restrict a set of newsgroups to a group of readers -
    just make the news dirs 750, uid news, gid restricted group.
    ....
	    This does not restrict *posting* - anyone can post to the cos.*
    newsgroups, but it does restrict *reading* - by any newsreader.

Except one using NNTP from another machine.  The NNTP server that's
floating around uses another mechanism, and only for version 1.5 and
later.

                              pf

Paul Fuqua
Texas Instruments Computer Science Center, Dallas, Texas
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