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.