[Coco] Reading through a firewall (was Re: spam in this list)

[John E. Malmberg]

Dennis Bathory-Kitsz wrote:
> Bob wrote:
> 
>>My only problem with the new list is that I can't keep up with it at
>>work like I can BLC... but the spam was making that tough anyway.
> 
> You can't reach the public news.gmane.org server to read in
> gmane.comp.hardware.tandy.coco?

Some corporate networks run their own local news servers, and will not 
allow direct access to external servers.

I do not know if gmane will allow their news server to be peered with 
these internal news servers.

In any case both this list, and the gmane.org newserver will allow you 
to look at what is posted from any web browser.

You can set up an e-mail address for posting only by signing up for the 
list, and then using the web form to set it no-mail.

You can also access the gmane news server through a text base news 
reader from a telnet session on Encompasserve.org.  A mostly 
auto-moderated read only copy of the bit.listserv.coco list is available 
in a notes conference there.

-John
wb8tyw at qsl.net
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