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In article <1992Dec18.162951.12616@rick.dgbt.doc.ca>, andrew@calvin.dgbt.doc.ca (Andrew Patrick) writes:
> Is there a way for me to have private local newsgroups?
> 
> That is, I have a list of users and they should be the only ones who
> can read and post to this newsgroup.  Better yet, no one else should
> even know about this newsgroup.
> 
> I am using C-News and various news readers.
> 
> -- 
> Andrew Patrick, Ph.D.       Communications Research Centre, Ottawa, CANADA
>                        andrew@calvin.dgbt.doc.CA

We do this here at several levels.  We support several sites that use our
local news server, and each site has a different set of restrictions on which
newsgroups they can read.  Using the /usr/lib/news/nntp_access file, you can
control who gets to read which newsgroup(s) either by individual machines, or
by a domain.  Using your domain it would translate to:

	calvin.dgbt.doc.CA   represents an individual machine
	*.dgbt.doc.CA        represents every machine in the domain
	*.doc.CA             represents a larger domain

As for sending (or the prevention of sending) your private newsgroups to any
where else, you will have to modify /usr/lib/news/sys and specifically list
the hierarchy that you don't want to send to the machine that you take your
feed from.

An entry like:

    feed_machine: all,!private_group,!private_group/all,!private_group:F:

Hopefully this is of some use...

jerry
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