8 Mar
2005
8 Mar
'05
12:48 p.m.
On Mar 8 2005, 17:59, Chris Blackburn wrote:
tell
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 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.
--
Pete Peter Turnbull
Network Manager
University of York