[PLUG] Re: News Gateway

[Karl M. Hegbloom]

Mike Culbertson wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Karl M. Hegbloom" <karlheg at pdxlinux.org>
> Newsgroups: plug.plug
> Sent: Tuesday, June 11, 2002 9:05 AM
> Subject: [PLUG] Need help with list admin
> 
> 
>>Is anyone using the news gateway?  Will anyone mind much if it goes
>>offline, at least until someday when a subscribers only posting can be
>>configured for it?
> 
> 
> Actually, when I found that I didn't need to belong to the list to post to
> it, I dropped my subscription and started using the news gateway
> exclusively. If a way could be found to keep people from posting to through
> nntp, that would be great. I can live with posting to the list via smtp and
> reading the list via nntp. I think that'd be a reasonable compromise.
> 
> Mike
> mike at culbertson.info
> 
> 

Ok, there's one, and Mike's vote for sure counts.  So, what we need to 
do is figure out how to make the news interface "closed" -- open to 
subscribers only.  I think it's supposed to support authenticated 
access, so we should look into that.  Anyone want to spend some time on 
this task?  I'm WAY too busy right now.