You obviously work for a PHB. Most tech companies provide support via
newsgroups.
borland
microsoft
corel
novell
turbopower
woll2woll
vistasoftware
sybase
raize
nevrona
digital-metaphors
......

At 08:52 PM 3/8/2002 +0000, you wrote:

>Would people behind a firewall be able to access a NNTP newsgroup? I
>am NOT able to access most newsgroups because of our company firewall.
>
>I have my group settings set to NO E-MAIL and I just browse the
>messages on the web. I haven't seen any spam coming from my
>membership in this group.
>
>One thing that I don't like is that Yahoo has started putting
>advertisements in the messages but I guess that is the price we pay
>for a FREE service.
>
>Just my $0.02...