NNTP instead of mail

[Jim Leonard]

David H. Barr wrote:
> 
>>3) Some people don't have NNTP access. Seriously. I've seen braindead
>>companies who don't consider usenet to be a good resource and block the
>>port at the firewall (despite usenet being IME a quicker way of getting
> 
> I have to, unfortunately, agree with 3), except I would have to change
> "some" to "many".  It's not only the company you might work for, but

NNTP is easily the first thing blocked at a corporation, so I have to agree as 
well.  Otherwise, cctalk/cctech should easily have been a newsgroup on a 
private server, given the amount of traffic cctalk gets.