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From: karl@grebyn.com (Karl A. Nyberg)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Monitoring site output (formerly portal bashing)
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Date: 2 Jun 88 13:38:21 GMT
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In article <2134@rtech.UUCP> daveb@rtech.UUCP (It takes a clear mind to make it) writes:
>One way to handle this would be to have a news administration option

Originating from Gene Spafford (I can't take credit for other people's ideas):

	To: karl@grebyn.com (Karl A. Nyberg)
	Subject: Re: FASCIST mode 
	Date: Wed, 01 Jun 88 09:30:46 EST
	From: Gene Spafford 
	
	...

	Second, there is no mechanism like FASCIST to preapprove all
	postings from a site.  The closest I think you could come would be
	to compile news with the SPOOLINEWS flag set.  That will cause all
	locally posted items to be queue in $NEWSPOOL/.rnews instead of
	being posted.  Then, daily, you go through and review the files
	there, and if all is acceptable you run "rnews -U" by 	hand.
	
	It's somewhat clumsy but it should do what you want.

	...

-- Karl --

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