Don't forget that some of us are behind a firewall that blocks NNTP.
At my primary employer's location, all ports except 80 and 8080 (even
POP) are blocked completely for the extranet. No chance to read
IBO-Lists thant while at work.

CU,

Nick Josipovic

BIT Institute
Prof. Dr. Franz Steffens
University of Mannheim
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nick.josipovic@...

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nando Dessena [mailto:nandod@...]
> Sent: Tuesday, March 12, 2002 12:19 PM
> To: IBObjects@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: Re: [IBO] Yahoo Crap
>
> Jason,
>
> > Any other thoughts?
>
> my vote would go to NNTP in a poll.
> Standard, easy to setup and operate, no need to develop or adopt
> proprietary software, plenty of searching and content management
> features in readers (have a look at Agent and XNews, or use Outlook).
> While I agree that your idea of a web based application is perfect for
> knowledge base and such stuff, I think that a newsgroup is the best

you

> can do to substitute this support list, or any support list for that
> matter.
>
> P.S. WRT the original subject of this thread, I haven't received
> anything. I *know* you are not thinking to move just because Lester

does

> receive some spam from time to time. ;-)
>
> Ciao
> --
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>
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