And lo, Beauregard T. Shagnasty didst speak in alt.www.webmaster:

> SpaceGirl wrote:
>
>> We have to access the Internet through our internal proxy, if I try
>> use a different proxy I can't get out of the firewall
>
> Subscribe to a dial-up service... ?

A meta-comment here... My own workplace doesn't block the NNTP port,
despite the internal proxy service. Yet there was a time I could have
justified allowing the access, had it been blocked, due almost solely to
the high signal to noise ratio of work-tech-related ful posts in AWW.

These days I suspect, mostly due to GG, that particular justification
would be a great deal more tenuous.

Still, there is a lot of useful information on Usenet. You [SpaceGirl]
should really pitch opening the port to your boss as a work-related
resource. It can't hurt to ask, can it? I mean, you're already *at* work
using GG, so you'd actually be streamlining your access by using a real
client.

Grey

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