Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site almsa-1 Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!think!harvard!seismo!brl-tgr!almsa-1!control From: control@almsa-1 (William Martin) Newsgroups: net.news Subject: Cutting back newsgroups Message-ID: <174@almsa-1> Date: Mon, 1-Jul-85 16:49:55 EDT Article-I.D.: almsa-1.174 Posted: Mon Jul 1 16:49:55 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 3-Jul-85 20:03:10 EDT Distribution: net Organization: ALMSA-1, St. Louis, MO Lines: 20 With regard to the possibility of sites limiting newsgroups: One thing that will be necessary before this becomes very widespread will be a revision of the existing documentation on setting up the news system at a new site. Right now, it all assumes that a new site will want all the newsgroups. There might be some mention of methods of eliminating and restricting groups, but it certainly is not prominent nor easy to find. What is needed is a paragraph near the start with the heading something like "DO YOU WANT A FULL OR A LIMITED NEWS SYSTEM?" and then clear and explicit instructions on what to do, what variables to set, what files to edit, etc., for limiting your site's news system to a subset of the available groups. (For those that want a full and unlimited system, the instructions would point the reader to go on to the next section, where the existing documentation would continue as it is now.) So this would only involve another paragraph or two added to the documentation. Could whoever is currently maintaining the documentation do this, and maybe send out the added section on net.news so all of us can see it? Will