svlug-jwz_quote_on_web_vs_usenet

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Date: Mon, 3 Jun 2002 16:02:29 -0700
From: Don Marti <dmarti@zgp.org>
To: svlug@lists.svlug.org
Subject: Re: [svlug]  Recommend a Web HTML News Server

begin svlug Newsgroup quotation of Mon, Jun 03, 2002 at 03:55:02PM -0700:

> Subject: Recommend a Web HTML News Server
> From: Vic C <vic@basebeans.com>
>  ===
> I am looking for a good software for a Web HTML News Server, already 
> have a news server (for news reader). (also a consultant to configure it).
> Issue is that lots of companies block the news ports, so I want to 
> provide news access.

Why not set up a guest account and let your users ssh in and run their
newsreader through a tunnel?  There is ssh software for all popular
platforms:
http://linuxmafia.com/pub/linux/security/ssh-clients

quote of the day...

  There is no web site that has a UI that comes close to the lamest
  newsreader in the world....they don't even let you do basic things
  like "don't show me messages I've already read".  It's a continual
  source of amazement to me (though it shouldn't be) what people will
  settle for.
        -- Jamie Zawinski

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