Re: [Haskell-cafe] Maintaining the community

Andrew Coppin writes:

Mark T.B. Carroll wrote:

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Andrew Coppin writes:

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Just curiose, but... what does NNTP have to do with your ISP?

Someone has to provide an NNTP server for your client to connect to. Many ISPs don't. Things like gmane can be used, of course. Some of the free ones can be okay. I like http://news.individual.net/ who, while not free, are pretty cheap, and they carry comp.lang.haskell.

...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. If your ISP doesn't provide a decent NNTP server, you have to find one of the less discriminating servers, and there aren't many good ones around that will serve news to just anyone. Mark