gih900@csc.anu.oz (Geoff Huston) (08/21/89)
Michelle Thibault writes: > We're running version 5.7 with VMS 5.0-2 and it has recently become an >issue to make "private" newsgroups to replace a local conferencing >system we are currently using. The summary of this posting is that much of what you want is in V5.8A. >* The documentation claims that using the SET NEWSGROUP command with >ADD/DELETE/... MEMBER is "recommended" instead of using ACLs (SET >ACCESS), but is there anyway to make an entire UIC group a member >without using ACLs? The "member" may be either a username or an identifier name, allowing groups of users who have the same identifier. > Also, how can one see who are members of a given > newsgroup?? SHOW MEMBER requires that a username is given, so do you > just have to type the ACCESS.NEWS file for that information, or is there > a way to see it from inside news? SHOW MEMBER/ALL or SHOW MEMBER * >* Also, is there any code in the later versions to prohibit >unregistered users from reading these newsgroups? Or even knowing of >their existence. (This includes over the network, as we have several >sites which access news remotely.) Yes - this is supported in V5.8A, including provision of excluding (or explicitly including) access by NNTP clients. > I'm willing to find the latest version of news (5.9?) and write the >code to deal with these issues, because we need them here, but I don't >want to re-invent the wheel if somebody else has done this already. ;-) >Also, it would be nice to hear if other people have ideas about this and >could use it. You'll find this dully supported in V5.9 - if you do not have read access to a newsgroup then you cannot see it's name in the newgroup directory. Geoff Huston