Re: Newsgroups

David B. Bauman (david@igcom.net)
Sat, 3 Aug 1996 14:58:33 -0500 (CDT)

On Sat, 3 Aug 1996, Jeremy T. Elston wrote:

> Sorry if this is a stupid question, but I am still very new to all this net
> communication and UNIX stuff....Is there a way, using packet filters, to filter
> out access to reading newsgroups? INN allows password protection for posting
> but not reading. If I can't filter out packets I will have to change all my
> users to UNIX logons and add news access individualy, instead of using the
> domain with passwords and names....

Well, besides the fact that INN *can* dissalow Reading as well as writing,
yes you can create a packet filter to block out nntp,nnrp.

DB