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(...) They have blocked the use of newsgroups totally - no newsgroup access. period. (...) Each group would be fine (but see my comments below about your second option). (...) You got it! (...) That would be incredible, but that seems like it would (...) (25 years ago, 27-May-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Have you tried setting your newsreader up with one of the alternate NNTP ports (8000 or 8080)? (...) For each group, or for each sub-hierarchy, or for both? (...) So basically, you want to be able to find & read new messages easily & quickly, (...) (25 years ago, 27-May-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Technically, that's not possible. Period. (1) Now, administratively, it may be a policy not to allow the standard newsgroup ports to go through, and it may be a policy not to allow installation of parts of packages that allow newsgroup (...) (25 years ago, 27-May-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Heh heh. Yes. OK, let's try this again. Ed, it's possible that you may have been brainwashed by "them." (No offense -- they're good at that sort of thing; it's what they do. :) Ed, have you tried setting your newsreader up with one of the (...) (25 years ago, 28-May-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) With an eery, almost Jedi-like sense of premonition......... :-) -- Terry K -- (25 years ago, 28-May-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
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In lugnet.admin.general, Todd Lehman writes: . (...) They both freeze up my system. (...) (25 years ago, 28-May-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) By "system" do you mean the app or the OS? Wow, either way, they've got you good! :-( Perhaps rather than blocking specific ports, they only allow certain ports (like 80=HTTP, 23=SMTP, etc.). Hmmm. You're running NT, right? What happens when (...) (25 years ago, 28-May-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Locks up the entire system and have to reboot. (...) That would work if they didn't hide the programs all over the system (we have drives from A-Z) - it'd take me a week just to figure out where they hid Telnet!!! (running a search on 26 (...) (25 years ago, 28-May-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
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Well, it's **technically** still possible to get you news access. **No** system of defenses against modifications to machines is impenetrable. But it's pretty clear that you'd be well beyond any sort of reasonable business justification by the time (...) (25 years ago, 28-May-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) OK, what about launching telnet via Netscape? What happens when you click on this URL?-- <telnet://lugnet.com:8080> (...) Flee while you still can! ;-) Welp, sounds like they've got you pretty good and stuck then -- with HTTP (web) and/or SMTP (...) (25 years ago, 28-May-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Wow, part of me wishes I worked for your company. :) To know beyond a shadow of a doubt that the people I'm supporting couldn't have installed random crap and screwed everything up would make my job so much easier. (...) Laughs that you have (...) (25 years ago, 28-May-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) That is exactly why they took such drastic action. (...) we (...) Laughs that we have it and laughs that it is so extremely difficult to circumvent. (25 years ago, 30-May-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
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