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Re: SUMMARY: how can I have private newsgroups?

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From: Stephen M. Jones
Date: Fri, 01 Jan 1993 21:25
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1992Dec31.212856.7534@rick.dgbt.doc.ca> andrew@calvin.dgbt.doc.ca (Andrew Patrick) writes:

>Another person suggested that group permission in the news/spool
>directory might work, and I have not tried this yet.

I was going to suggest this... I doubt trn, rn or nn run as a root process.
so If a user who didn't have access (or was in that group for access)
to that (or those) newsgroups would just get a message Permission Denied.


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