re[6]: Why isn't this an 'NNTP' News Group??

[Milton Taylor <mc...@ingennia.com.au>]

You don't have to have an NNTP server to read an NNTP newsgroup. It's apache.org who have to have the NNTP server. All you need is an NNTP client, such as Netscape Communicator's inbuilt one. (Which is quite good).

The only other requirement is that if you have a corporate firewall, it needs to allow NNTP connections through.
(This could to be to all NNTP servers, or just specific servers).


> Hmmm,
> I wonder if I am the only one, but there is no NNTP server I can access in 
> my
> company. That may be difficult to read this forum if it went NNTP.


> -- 
> A. Vidovic
> Software engineer
> IMR Global Japan





> Milton Taylor <mc...@ingennia.com.au>
> 00/01/27 11:07 AM
> Please respond to general

>  
>         To:     <ge...@jakarta.apache.org>
>         cc: 
>         Subject:        re[4]: Why isn't this an 'NNTP' News Group??

> NNTP is better than web based interfaces for general browsing.

> But web based is still better than email lists in my view!



> > Personally, I prefer mailing lists to web-based lists.

> > I find web-based lists on the clunky side... and like the separation of
> > content that web based systems have a hard time duplicating. Using NNTP
> > might be better still.

> > - Brill Pappin

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Re: Why isn't this an 'NNTP' News Group??

[Eugen Kuleshov <an...@hco.kollegienet.dk>]

Milton Taylor wrote:
 
> You don't have to have an NNTP server to read an NNTP newsgroup. It's apache.org who have to have the NNTP server. All you need is an NNTP client, such as Netscape Communicator's inbuilt one. (Which is quite good).
> The only other requirement is that if you have a corporate firewall, it needs to allow NNTP connections through.
> (This could to be to all NNTP servers, or just specific servers).

  There are big problem for many people using NNTP via firewall. I have
disabled NNTP for my network. 
  But mail is a fast and simplyest replacement. I have own local
maillist archive and can manage it in my own way.
  Do you ever heard about mail filters? This feature exists in all good
email clients. You can manage all incoming mail and automatically sort
it by folders.

  Eugen Kuleshov.