On Tue, 2 Mar 2004 06:23:06 +0900, Matthew Endo  ...
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>Brett Robson <jet_boy@deja.com> wrote:
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>> >Does anyone here use YahooBB?  Do they have a usenet server.  I've looked
>> >over the setup instructions and I don't see anything that looks like a
>> >usenet server address.  Does Yahoo think that only web based usenet is the
>> >way to go?
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>Web based services much be a lot cheaper than running actual NNTP or
>mail servers.

You need a big database to store the users settings (eg what they have read) and
sent messages, and you still need the basic SMTP and NNTP servers to talk to
everyone. It works out to be quite a bit more expensive, but user support is
easier; so maybe it is cheaper over all.


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>> Excuse me while I gloat, but what do you expect from an ISP that hands out
>> routers on the street?
>
>Those are routers?  I thought they were just "modems"...
>

routers, modems, who cares? It's not as if I work in the industry and have my
cisco certificate or anything. (>.<)




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