[Info-vax] This is for the folks who get comp.os.vms via the Info-VAX mailing list

[Craig A. Berry]

On 11/29/23 1:56 AM, Andy Burns wrote:
> bill wrote:
> 
>> Ken Robinson wrote:
>>
>>> I've put in a filter to kill any posts that come from Google groups
>>
>> Looks like my news server is doing that now and it is resulting in
>> legitimate posts being dropped. 
> 
> Yes, considering VMS people to be technically competent, a surprising 
> number of them use google groups :-(
> 
>> Considering how many free public
>> and very inexpensive news servers are available I hope anyone
>> expecting to actually use USENET leaves google groups.
> 
> +1

As has been said many times (whenever this suggestion comes up), not
everyone has NNTP access.  Corporate firewalls mostly block it, for one
thing.