Rob wrote:
Rufus <[email protected]> wrote:
I think the main reason that our environment never adopted Mozilla or SM
is *because* of it's ability to configure for usenet access, again for
security as well as time-wasting reasons. Not having a usenet feature
in Firefox is what makes it allowable for us as an alternative, IMO.
That should be no reason in a business network. We have had a local news
server for a while, it was used for an internal news and discussion
experiment until it became obvious that the "see every article once"
model is not really well suited for this. Then we had a phpBB for a
while but it was discontinued as well. The people were not ready to
communicate in the way that they now do all the time on twitter and
yammer.
I wish we had something simple like that...instead of the many ways we
have...including - UGH - Facebook. We do have an inside-the-wall sort
of IM capability, and another one that's like F-book and Twitter
combined...arrgh!
However, external usenet servers cannot be configured because the
network does not allow connections from the workstations to the internet.
(browsing is via a proxy server)
Most business networks at least have a firewall.
In my environment it would be possible to get around that because of how
we configure...and most certainly for an employee that took his issue
laptop home and operated on/from/with his own home net ISP - which we
have ways to do, for work from home.
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- Rufus
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