news@zeus.calpoly.edu (That News Dude) (04/27/91)
This *has* to be a FAQ, but... I'd like to create a local group, and make it moderated, so only the sysadmins can post to it. (it's an announce group for the system here). What's the "correct" way to do this? C-news, latest version, and NNTP feed from remote site, but all news stored locally (if this information is needed). BTW, why is there no news.software.c? -- ++Christopher(news); | news@zeus.calpoly.edu | | News Administration Account for These two strings walk into a bar... | Cal Poly, SLO, AIX Cluster
henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) (04/28/91)
In article <1991Apr27.080042.196976@zeus.calpoly.edu> news@zeus.calpoly.edu (That News Dude) writes: >I'd like to create a local group, and make it moderated, so only the >sysadmins can post to it. (it's an announce group for the system here). >What's the "correct" way to do this? [in C News] NEWSBIN/maint/addgroup my.moderated.group m Followed by editing NEWSCTL/mailpaths so that attempted postings get mailed somewhere suitable if they don't have an Approved header in them. Adding a line like my.moderated.group postmaster is a reasonable starting point; note that it must go before any "all" line. Followed by training your sysadmins to put Approved headers in; this is the hardest part in my experience. :-) An alternative is to tinker with inews so that the peons aren't allowed to post to that group at all, but as discussed recently (see the discussion of "FASCIST" mode), this is easy to evade if a user is determined. -- And the bean-counter replied, | Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology "beans are more important". | henry@zoo.toronto.edu utzoo!henry