Re: Code of Conduct on the Debian mailinglists
Wouter Verhelst <wouter@debian.org> writes:
>> * E-mail generally has a "wider reach" -- it gets past corporate
>> firewalls, (my company has never allowed external nntp connections),
>> works even on strange systems, etc.
>
> Point. Then again, if your corporate sysadmins don't want you reading
> news, they probably don't want you reading mailinglists, either.
Most people don't really care what the corporate sysadmins _want_, they
care about what the sysadmins _enforce_. Because there are many common
"corporate" uses of email and mailing lists, email tends to get through
by default. Nttp traffic doesn't.
-Miles
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Americans are broad-minded people. They'll accept the fact that a person can
be an alcoholic, a dope fiend, a wife beater, and even a newspaperman, but if a
man doesn't drive, there is something wrong with him. -- Art Buchwald
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