The Constitutional History of England, from the Accession of Henry Vii. to the Death of George Ii.

The second and third fields describe the access rights granted to the client. The second field details the permissions to retrieve news by pulling (read), and transmit news by pushing (xfer). A value of both enables both; no denies access altogether. The third field grants the client the right to post articles, i.e., deliver articles with incomplete header information, which is completed by the news software. If the second field contains no, the third field is ignored. The fourth field is optional and contains a comma-separated list of groups to which the client is denied access. This is a sample nntp_access file: # # by default, anyone may transfer news, but not read or post default xfer no # # public.vbrew.com offers public access via modem. We allow # them to read and post to any but the local.* groups public.vbrew.com read post!local # # all other hosts at the brewery may read and post *.vbrew.com read post NNTP Authorization The nntpd daemon provides a simple authorization scheme. If you capitalize any of the access tokens in the nntp_access file, nntpd requires authorization from the client for the respective operation ...»