malc@equinox.unr.edu (Malcolm Carlock) (04/09/91)
With just a tad of modification to the FASCIST code in 2.11 (and the grafting
of some 2.11's FASCIST code to rn), I've got restricted newsgroups, and
selected access to them, working well on our news machine -- for those users
who actually log in to that machine to read their news. The only control I
currently have over these groups via nntp is to grant or deny access to them
globally. I've currently got nntp access to these groups turned off (the
"restricted groups" feature isn't something that's being advertised yet at
this site.) I've got a couple of possible schemes worked out for allowing
selected access to these groups, both of which would involve local extensions
to the RFC977 command set.
Before I try to implement this, and possibly re-invent the wheel, has anyone
else already done something like this in B or C news? If there are already
some "standards" for this sort of thing around I'd like to try to comply
with them.
Thanks in advance.
Malcolm L. Carlock Internet: malc@unr.edu
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