zdkm01@hou.amoco.com (Dave Moore) (05/24/91)
We are currently in the process of establishing a corporate UseNet network. It will consist of Cnews servers, interconnected using nntp. Due to management concerns over copyright infringements and viral attacks I would like to know if anyone is familiar with filters that may be applied against a file to determine if it contains an uuencode binary. Also, would it be possible to include such a filter in the nntp stream so that files containing the information could be intercepted and removed or redirected. Please email any info that you have and summarize in a later posting. Thanks in advance. -- Dave Moore dmoore@hou.amoco.com Amoco Corp. ISD SSS/Mini-Micro Systems Houston, Texas (713) 556-2242 Socon 8-321-2242 CSSVM(ZDKM01)
sob@tmc.edu (Stan Barber) (06/10/91)
In article <1991May23.190827.24459@hou.amoco.com> zdkm01@hou.amoco.com (Dave Moore) writes: >Also, would it be possible to include such a filter in the nntp >stream so that files containing the information could be intercepted >and removed or redirected. Such functionality should be part of the news system, not NNTP. I would guess that the news relay and news posting functions of CNEWS could be modified to do this. However, you'll probably have to do this yourself. NNTP will not support such features and no plans are on the drawing board to include such features. It is not what NNTP does. -- Stan internet: sob@bcm.tmc.edu Director, Networking Olan uucp: rutgers!bcm!sob and Systems Support Barber Opinions expressed are only mine. Baylor College of Medicine