>so make ifnews owned by fnet.uucp and permissions rws--x--- and edit
 >/etc/group to make "news" a memeber of group uucp if that isn't already
 >the case :
 >uucp::14:uucp,fnet,news,root,mail
There is no need to do that, if the permissions of ifmail/ifnews are:
-rwsr-xr--   2 ifmail   news       106236 Aug 13 22:42 ifmail*
you don't have to add any user to the uucp group (nor to the news group).
-- ciao, Marco