Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site spanky.UUCP Path: utzoo!decvax!harpo!floyd!vax135!ariel!houti!hogpc!houxm!hocda!spanky!ka From: ka@spanky.UUCP Newsgroups: net.news.b Subject: Re: bug in control.c? Message-ID: <342@spanky.UUCP> Date: Fri, 3-Jun-83 12:36:55 EDT Article-I.D.: spanky.342 Posted: Fri Jun 3 12:36:55 1983 Date-Received: Wed, 8-Jun-83 12:26:43 EDT References: <138@packet.UUCP> Organization: Bell Labs, Holmdel, N. J. Lines: 7 If you didn't write an article, you can still delete it on your machine if you are the netnews administrator, but you can't delete it on other people's machines. This seems fairly reasonable to me. As for your "non-privileged root": if you log in as root on UNIX you can do *anything*; that is the whole point of a root login. If somebody just wants to read news they can do it without being logged in as root. Kenneth Almquist