NNTP instead of mail

[Pete Turnbull]

On Mar 8 2005, 17:59, Chris Blackburn wrote:

> All the email/news clients I have used support it, these include
>
> 1) Microsoft Lookout (express)
> 2) Mozilla Mail
> 3) Mozilla Thunderbird

Most traditional ones, like tin, do so as well.

> > 3) Some people don't have NNTP access.
>
> I truly hadn't thought of this one. If it is a problem then we can
tell
> INN to run on a nonstandard (and usually available) port and tell
> people to set up their news clients appropriately.

Except that firewalls with a "default drop" policy, ie block everything
except that which is "known" to be "safe", are becoming more common --
so using a non-standard port would make matters worse, I suspect.
 OTOH, you could use port 80 if the NNTP server wasn't also a web
server.

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Pete						Peter Turnbull
						Network Manager
						University of York