Andrew Coppin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Mark T.B. Carroll wrote: >> Andrew Coppin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >>> Just curiose, but... what does NNTP have to do with your ISP? >> >> Someone has to provide an NNTP server for your client to connect to. >> Many ISPs don't. Things like gmane can be used, of course. Some of >> the free ones can be okay. I like http://news.individual.net/ who, >> while not free, are pretty cheap, and they carry comp.lang.haskell. > > ...and when you view a web page, your web browser has to connect to a > web server somewhere. > > I don't see your point...
Very many news servers will only serve news to people on the network of whoever's running the server: i.e. a rather restricted 'customer' base. If your ISP doesn't provide a decent NNTP server, you have to find one of the less discriminating servers, and there aren't many good ones around that will serve news to just anyone. Mark _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
