Google and uk.d-i-y

I had faith all along ;)

NT

Or more likely, employers don't get a hell of a lot of benefit from their workers spending all day reading newsgroups so see no need to facilitate the process! How many folk here are reading/posting on their employer's time I wonder?

David

I *suspect* that there are quite a few, but many I also suspect are only stealing time from themselves....

Well, my employer encourages us to use newsgroups relevant to work (and bloggs, but I'm not into them).

"Dave Stanton" wrote | > There is a tiny minority of people who, due to computer access | > restrictions (such as work place computers), can't install a news a | > reader not an account so are forced to us a web based service | > such as Google. | Yes, thought that is what you were going to say. I expect your sys | admin justs lays down this dictat without any explanation ?. | Firewall etc ?.

Possibly the fact that newsgroup reading isn't part of most people's job descriptions prevents people raising too much of a stooshie.

Owain

There are alternatives that may work well. When I'm in this situation, I use telnet to get to a shell account on my own machine, and read news from there.

Much, much faster than google.

Shell accounts available from around $2/month, or $0 if you've got a unix box on the net.

services

I wasn't aware of the reply button in the options.

Do you find, if you are "signed in" that the reply link below the post doesn't give you the original post as quoted text? If you have to sign in then you get a different reply page and the original message is quoted.

MBQ

When I said 'web access' only that's exactly what I meant - specifically HTTP access via proxy. Given that NNTP is a no-no, telnet is a *definite* no-no...

Mathew

I do it all the time