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Re: When is everyone coming over?
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Date: 
Fri, 2 Oct 1998 20:29:57 GMT
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On Fri, 2 Oct 1998 14:14:31 GMT, mattdm@mattdm.org (Matthew Miller)
wrote:

It might be a while. Some people don't want to change their habits. And
others can't, due to firewall issues. (Todd - the web interface would
certainly help here!) And, although Todd is (well as far as I can tell) a
good person and doing this for all the right reasons, there might be some
moral issues about moving from an open, public resource to something which
actually belongs to and is controlled by a individual. (Or a couple of
people.)

Plus, rtl is easy for new people looking for Lego newsgroups to find....

Hrmmm - I can see how the firewall issue comes into play for the
question of whether or not to move the lcad list here, but if people
are accessing a news server to read rtl, why couldn't they access
lugnet to do the same with these groups?

Unless you mean just people using corporate servers, I suppose?

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  Re: When is everyone coming over?
 
(...) Because maybe they're able to access a usenet news server _behind_ their firewall, but aren't allowed to connect to just whatever newserver they want Out In The World? (26 years ago, 2-Oct-98, to lugnet.admin.general)
  Re: When is everyone coming over?
 
(...) Corporate servers is where firewalls usually are, yeah. A company sponsors the groups that are broadcasted. But lugnet's are not broadcasted. However, I note that I moved to downloading news on my own machine because I was never able to get (...) (26 years ago, 2-Oct-98, to lugnet.admin.general)

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