snk@cellar.bae.bellcore.com (Sam Kamens) (10/09/90)
(I hope this is the right newsgroup for this....) We have been talking here in our company about using usenet for intra-company news, discussion of projects, and dissemination of information. However, there has been some concern about keeping these discussions private within the company, or even within certain parts of the company. I personally am using the (I guess quasi-standard) rn program to read news, which (I think) uses b-news. I think this is the usual newsreader used here. Does anybody have any information about how to restrict newsgroups in a way like this? I understand this is a little vague, so feel free to ask and I'll clarify as best I can. Please respond by email, to the address below (or above). Thank you, ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sam Kamens | insert clever disclaimer here. Bell Communications Research | snk@cellar.bae.bellcore.com |
davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.COM (Wm E Davidsen Jr) (10/11/90)
In article <27633@bellcore.bellcore.com> snk@cellar.bae.bellcore.com (Sam Kamens) writes: | We have been talking here in our company about using | usenet for intra-company news, discussion of projects, | and dissemination of information. However, there has | been some concern about keeping these discussions | private within the company, or even within certain | parts of the company. It is not easy to restrict the readership of groups on a given machine. Ask again if you really want to do that. It can be done, but there are no automated tools to do it. To restrict the distribution of private stuff, just don't feed it in you sys file. For instance this machine has local ge and starix distributions, which get fed only to selected machines. All others have !ge,!starix in the sys file. Those using dynafeed (the wave of the future, for sure), can put this in global or local rules. -- bill davidsen (davidsen@crdos1.crd.GE.COM -or- uunet!crdgw1!crdos1!davidsen) VMS is a text-only adventure game. If you win you can use unix.