Managing group read permissions to facilitate content "teasing"

Posted by Stu on 1212009952

I am familiar with setting group permissions at the admin/groups level for different groups as well as in different modules such as smartsection, mastop, etc. But these permssions tend to in general fully turn on or turn off permission so that if one is not a group member with permission, they will never see anything that they are not permitted to see. I would like to be able to expose content at a high level to a certain group (i.e. to anonymous users in menus, through search, etc.) but then have the low level content (i.e. that which is clicked through to) be restricted, e.g. by some "you do not have permission to access this content") to promote people becoming registered users of the site.

Is the ability to do this module specific or can it be configured somehow just within the admin/groups area?