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 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...