tony@oha.UUCP (Tony Olekshy) (06/01/90)
I have B news running on my workstation. I would like to set up a group of machines that forward a private usenet between them (say the oha.* hierarchy). If someone is in the mood, I would appreciate an overview of how to do this. Also, is there any advantage to switching to C news for such a private usenet, other than the normal things that C news does better? -- Yours, etc., Tony Olekshy (...!alberta!oha!tony or tony@oha.UUCP).
henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) (06/02/90)
In article <421@oha.UUCP> tony@oha.UUCP (Tony Olekshy) writes: >I have B news running on my workstation. I would like to set up a group >of machines that forward a private usenet between them (say the oha.* >hierarchy). If someone is in the mood, I would appreciate an overview of >how to do this. It's no different from manually setting up new groups in the normal hierarchies. You create active-file entries for the groups and directories for them ("addgroup" in C News, "inews -C" I think in B News), alter your sys-file lines to send those groups to just the sites you want to send them to, and alert those sites to do likewise. That's it. If you are seriously concerned about keeping that traffic really and truly private, you should disable ihave/sendme on your site, as otherwise any of your neighbors who can guess the message-IDs in the private groups (and B News message-IDs are pretty easy to guess) can ask your machine for the articles. >Also, is there any advantage to switching to C news for such a private >usenet, other than the normal things that C news does better? You should obviously switch to C News anyway. :-) However, I can't think of any specific advantage in this context. -- As a user I'll take speed over| Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology features any day. -A.Tanenbaum| uunet!attcan!utzoo!henry henry@zoo.toronto.edu