Wouter Verhelst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> * E-mail generally has a "wider reach" -- it gets past corporate >> firewalls, (my company has never allowed external nntp connections), >> works even on strange systems, etc. > > Point. Then again, if your corporate sysadmins don't want you reading > news, they probably don't want you reading mailinglists, either.
Most people don't really care what the corporate sysadmins _want_, they care about what the sysadmins _enforce_. Because there are many common "corporate" uses of email and mailing lists, email tends to get through by default. Nttp traffic doesn't. -Miles -- Americans are broad-minded people. They'll accept the fact that a person can be an alcoholic, a dope fiend, a wife beater, and even a newspaperman, but if a man doesn't drive, there is something wrong with him. -- Art Buchwald -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
