Re: [Haskell-cafe] Maintaining the community

On Fri, 13 Jul 2007, Andrew Coppin wrote:

Mark T.B. Carroll wrote:

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Andrew Coppin writes:

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...and when you view a web page, your web browser has to connect to a web server somewhere.

I don't see your point...

Very many news servers will only serve news to people on the network of whoever's running the server: i.e. a rather restricted 'customer' base.

Really? Most web servers will accept a connection from anybody. (Unless it's *intended* to be an Intranet.) I'm not quite sure why somebody would configure their NNTP server differently...

That's probably because someone has to pay for maintenance. Most of the time, this will be the one who is running the server. So, if *you* were running a NNTP server and had to pay monthly fees and other recurring costs, whom would you grant access to your NNTP server? With web servers, you, as the reader or consumer, don't have to pay for the access, because the owner of the web server takes care of these costs, because he/she probably gains some sort of benefit from this. Regards, Jens