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Re: Controlling access to newsgroups

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From: Dave McLane
Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1993 00:48
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brad@clarinet.com (Brad Templeton) writes:

>You could always encrypt articles and have a reading program on the other
>end with access to the passwords, which in turns only allows access to
>the right users, however you must do this:

>	Have reasonably quick encryption, somehow still secure.

>	The remote program nor the nntp server should be capable of
>	dumping core or being ptraced.

Sounds pretty messy as I want to limit access to *all* the news!

You see the networks in Japan are being reorganized and all .or/.co
machines will have to start paying for their news (it used to be
free for the price of telephone call--10 yen/minute--from the
government supported backbone.) Since not all members of the Aegis
Society (which supports Aegis) want to read news, they don't want to
pay for news. Further, some members want to share the cost of
selected mailing lists->news. So I'm looking for a way I can control
access....

Dave

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From: davidg@aegis.or.jp (Dave McLane)
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Subject: Re: Controlling access to newsgroups
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Date: 13 Jan 93 00:48:30 GMT
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