group access control

Matthew Parry — Thu, 20 Jul 2006 01:12:32 -0000

If I create some local groups and give my friends
access to them, then (as far as I can tell) there is
no way to stop them from reading any other newsgroup
on USENET, thus possibly clogging up my hard-drive.

It would be useful to have some way to control the
output of a LIST NNTP command so that I can restrict
access to groups depending on who is connected.

Perhaps have a NNTP_LIST environment variable that
gives the name of a file containing a glob style
list of newsgroups to be given at a LIST command.
I could then control access through hosts.allow
as with the NOPOSTING env. var.

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group access control