02.02 Is it possible to restrict the groups that users have access to?

Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 00:00:00 -0800

  Create a new group for the people who can read the special groups.
  Call it "privnews", for example. (In /etc/group put the user id of
  each person who's in that group on that group's line.)  Then change
  the group of the spool directory which contains the restricted
  newsgroup to "privnews" (leaving the owner as news), and set the
  mode to 750.

From: Steve Simmons <scs@wotan.iti.org>
Date: Sun, 2 Jun 1991 21:56:45 -0700

  Note that this only works if you are not using NNTP to read news.
  There is currently no mechanism that will allow this to work with
  NNTP.

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