Email is the best way! We have NNTP shut off at our
firewall (no real reason for us to be using it at
work) but port 80 is open. (25 and 110 are also both
open) so I can do email, either web based or from my
server at home from work!
Ed
web/gadget guru
http://newton.tek-ed.com (download Newton packages)
http://npds.tek-ed.com (my NPDS server and it's new
subdomain)
--- Will Hartung <willh_at_msoft.com> wrote:
>
> From: "Bradford Schmidt" <brad_at_bradfordschmidt.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2002 7:36 PM
>
> > Forgive me if this has been brought up before, but
> has there ever been
> > any thought of using a web-based bulletin board
> for the group? That
> > would certainly solve the issue of unwanted thread
> traffic. Then of
> > course there is yahoo groups, which can be set up
> as either web or both
> > web and email on a per-user basis.
>
> Personally, I'm not a fan of web boards. I'm much
> less apt to participate in
> one. If I had my way, this would be a newsgroup (and
> I guess the real
> question on how this list gets all of the traffic
> while c.s.n.misc is,
> essentially, dead).
>
> But I appreciate that newsgroups are harder to use
> for some. I took me a
> while to get a news provider.
>
> Besides, a web board would have just as much OT
> stuff as not.
>
> Will Hartung
> (willh_at_msoft.com)
=====
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