[Haskell-cafe] Maintaining the community

[Andrew Coppin]

Mark T.B. Carroll wrote:
> Andrew Coppin <andrewcoppin at btinternet.com> 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...