From: cjjohans@cc.helsinki.fi (Carl J R Johansson) Subject: Re: This mail list in a news group 20 Jan 1997 03:50:09 -0800 Approved: cygnus.gnu-win32@cygnus.com Distribution: cygnus Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Sender: cjjohans@vesuri.Helsinki.FI Original-To: "J.J.Farrell" Original-cc: gnu-win32@cygnus.com In-Reply-To: <199701200224.27915.0@dsbc.icl.co.uk> Original-Sender: owner-gnu-win32@cygnus.com On Mon, 20 Jan 1997, J.J.Farrell wrote: > > The other solution would maybe be to have them only on a local > > server (that would at least guarantee that everyone can access > > them) but of course who would pay for that? > > What do you mean by "a local server"? Local to whom? If you mean > create the group on a single news server somewhere and use NNTP > to access it, that would guarantee than many of us couldn't access > it! Many people behind firewalls aren't allowed to have NNTP > conversations over the big bad Net. > Allright, but I don't think everyone has every comp group either. Of course they would in those cases probably be able to access it through Dejanews or some public newsserver. cj - For help on using this list, send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".