[Haskell-cafe] Maintaining the community

[Andrew Coppin]

Mark T.B. Carroll wrote:
> Andrew Coppin <andrewcoppin at btinternet.com> writes:
>
>   
>> ...and when you view a web page, your web browser has to connect to a
>> web server somewhere.
>>
>> I don't see your point...
>>     
>
> Very many news servers will only serve news to people on the network of
> whoever's running the server: i.e. a rather restricted 'customer' base.
>   

Really? Most web servers will accept a connection from anybody. (Unless 
it's *intended* to be an Intranet.) I'm not quite sure why somebody 
would configure their NNTP server differently...