Anybody ever consider connecting to a usenet server or are most people posting from behind a firewall at work that blocks port 119? 😉
That's what ssh is for.
-- Dane Buson - [email hidden] The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of misery. -- Churchill
Anybody ever consider connecting to a usenet server or are most people posting from behind a firewall at work that blocks port 119? 😉
Google Groups has its value. It's quick-n-dirty, and once you get used to its quirks it's almost usable.
But, as you may notice, I've just reactivated rbt on my home Usenet server (which proxies through Easynews in a way that even the retro would be scared to contemplate).
I've had discussions with Google's Usenet maintainers before. I think it's one of their do-it-yourself- on-company-time projects, not an official thing. Googlers get 20% of their work time to do side projects. The idea is, that's how new ideas get tried, and maybe a side project will be picked up as a revenue project. But clearly the people who've tasked themselves with caring about Google Groups, or at least the Usenet portion of it, have long since decided it isn't worth their attention, even when it breaks.
On Tue, 26 Sep 2006 23:36:12 -0700, "G.T." <[email hidden]>
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What if you have an http proxy only?
a. contact whatever corporate moron set up this draconian policy and do a Sam Kenneson on him. Be sure to mention Stalin and [censored].
b. find a new job somewhere else
Please note that (a) sometimes results in application of (b).
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"All my time I spent in heaven Revelries of dance and wine Waking to the sound of laughter Up I'd rise and kiss the sky" - The Mekons
Hey, this is kind of the bizarro world version of my own adopted philosophy 'When I die I'll go to heaven, 'cause I've spent my time in Hell" and "'scuse me, while I curse the sky"!
Fill in your proxy host/port (login/pw if needed) and away you go.
In the event your proxy will only let you go to port 80 or 443, you may have to do port forwarding or some such on the destination end.
-- Dane Buson - [email hidden] "2) Users don't know what they really want, but they know for certain what they don't want." - Manubay's Laws for Programmers
>Warning: This may be too retro even for r.b.t. > >Anybody ever consider connecting to a usenet server or are most people >posting from behind a firewall at work that blocks port 119? 😉
Fill in your proxy host/port (login/pw if needed) and away you go.
In the event your proxy will only let you go to port 80 or 443, you may have to do port forwarding or some such on the destination end.
Oh, I have it all worked out, thankfully we do have a telnet proxy so I just need to run ssh on port 23. The point is this stuff is not trivial, and you need your own box out on the Internet or a good shell account somewhere.
I got sick of Deja/Google so I was going to get Usenet access at work one way or another even if it meant getting a DSL line in my office.
Greg
-- "All my time I spent in heaven Revelries of dance and wine Waking to the sound of laughter Up I'd rise and kiss the sky" - The Mekons
In the event your proxy will only let you go to port 80 or 443, you may have to do port forwarding or some such on the destination end.
Oh, I have it all worked out, thankfully we do have a telnet proxy so I just need to run ssh on port 23. The point is this stuff is not trivial, and you need your own box out on the Internet or a good shell account somewhere.
Well, I assumed we had descended into a propeller-head discussion zone.
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I got sick of Deja/Google so I was going to get Usenet access at work one way or another even if it meant getting a DSL line in my office.
*Nod* They could be worse I suppose, but they don't really match up to a newsreader specific program. Goodness knows I've grown rather attached to my newsreader of choice (tin). Especially since I've kicked the source into shape to remove some personal annoyances.
The main one being the change of rot13 toggling from 'd' to '%'. Grrrrr.
-- Dane Buson - [email hidden] "There is this special biologist word we use for 'stable'. It is 'dead'." - Jack Cohen
