On Jan 8, 2005, at 5:39 PM, Mark A. Lewis 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... Oh I see. Well it certainly is possible to run a NNTP web-based newsreader (gmane uses one, for instance). Also NNTP can be gated to mailing lists, and vice versa. --Jim -- Jim Zajkowski OpenPGP 0x21135C3 http://www.jimz.net/pgp.asc System Administrator 8A9E 1DDF 944D 83C3 AEAB 8F74 8697 A823 2113 5C53 UM Life Sciences Institute