Re: Internet News Groups

["L. S. Russell" <leslier@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I think he means that some folks configure their news servers to be
available only to their customers, whereas some have mis-configured
their servers to be accessible to folks outside their customer base. 
My ISP, before they sold out, had left their server open to the public.
Anyone with a news reader could set it up to access a list of news
groups by naming news.my.isp as their news server. No password was
required :( 
It would be a gray area of ethics if you had discovered this
mis-configuration and were abusing it. 

However, the services he pointed you to are in the business of providing
news server access so I don't see the ethical dilemma.

Jon.Paris@hal.it wrote:
> 
>  >> I think it's ethically grey, though.
> 
> Thanks for the links, but why the "grey" comment ?  What am I missing about
> newsgroups?  I thought they were the original bastion of the free exchange of
> information.
> 
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