RE: [Haskell-cafe] Maintaining the community

Perhaps I haven't found the amazing treasure trove of open NNTP servers you appear to have, but in my experience I've yet to find a single good (read: access to most groups and quick about it) and free NNTP server (read: not from my ISP, employer, or university - which, if provided at all, have always been quite limited in which groups they serve), so I can completely understand where the others are coming from in this regard. Perhaps those of you who have found good, free NNTP servers would care to share these well kept secrets? -----Original Message----- From: haskell-cafe-bounces@haskell.org [mailto:haskell-cafe-bounces@haskell.org] On Behalf Of Andrew Coppin Sent: Friday, July 13, 2007 5:04 PM To: haskell-cafe@haskell.org Subject: Re: [Haskell-cafe] Maintaining the community Mark T.B. Carroll wrote:

Andrew Coppin writes:

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

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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... _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe -------------------------------------------------------- NOTICE: If received in error, please destroy and notify sender. Sender does not intend to waive confidentiality or privilege. Use of this email is prohibited when received in error.