[comp.dcom.lans] Can NNTP be blocked?

palkovic@linac.fnal.gov (John A. Palkovic) (09/13/90)

Suppose there was a workstation at an institution where the higher ups
frown on malicious, harmful activities like reading USENET news :-).
The fascists in the network dept would like to block NNTP from a
computer which is on an LAN connected to the internet through some
sort of network router/gateway (e.g. a cisco router). Is it possible
to do this in software (cutting the ethernet cable is not a valid
answer)?

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