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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
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Posted: Mon Jul  1 16:49:55 1985
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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