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

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 11/29/2023 8:07 AM, Simon Clubley wrote:
> On 2023-11-29, Craig A. Berry <craigberry at nospam.mac.com> wrote:
>> As has been said many times (whenever this suggestion comes up), not
>> everyone has NNTP access.  Corporate firewalls mostly block it, for one
>> thing.
> 
> Some services allow NNTP access on ports 80 and 443 for just that reason.

If the corporate security setup keep port 80 and 443
open and block other ports but does not bother checking
what protocols are used on port 80/443, then I would say that
it is a weak security setup. Either the firewall
does some inspection or only allows outbound port 80/443
via a proxy that does some inspection.

Arne