Newsgroups: news.admin
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: NNTP, Security, and the "webber" sendsys
Message-ID: <1988Jul7.162501.8739@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: 
Date: Thu, 7 Jul 88 16:25:01 GMT

> ... At one point last summer Henry
> Spencer was speaking about adding enough security to netnews to
> prevent people from posting into moderated groups, but apparently
> he gave up on that as a lost cause...

Not exactly.  We know how to do it; it would present some operational
problems but would not be impossibly difficult.  The trouble is that
it's a lot of work, and we're having enough trouble finding the time
and energy needed to get C News tidied up and out the door as it is.
-- 
Man is the best computer we can      |  Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
put aboard a spacecraft. --Von Braun | {ihnp4,decvax,uunet!mnetor}!utzoo!henry