[Centos] NNTP versus web forums

Sun Jan 9 01:45:35 UTC 2005
Greg Knaddison <greg.knaddison at gmail.com>

On Sat, 8 Jan 2005 15:46:55 -0600, Mark A. Lewis <mark at siliconjunkie.net> wrote:
> The other big thing to remember is that many of us do not have NNTP
> feeds at work, where e-mail and the web are easy to get to.


On Sat, 8 Jan 2005 16:39:43 -0600, Mark A. Lewis <mark at siliconjunkie.net> wrote:
> No, I mean the vast majority of employers block 119 and do not offer
> news service. I realize you do not need a local server, but you have to
> be able to connect to pull it from somewhere...
> 

If the web is easy to get to, but slrn isn't available because 119 is blocked:

http://groups.google.com/

I personally think that nntp is the best forum for these kinds of
lists, but barring the list starting out on usenet I'd rather keep
them in one place to prevent fragmentation.

Greg