On Thu, 5 May 2005 13:09:14 +0000 (UTC), Paul Tomblin wrote:

I'm stuck using Google to access the groups when I'm at work.

why? does your ISP at work does not offer usenet news?

"ISP at work"? You've never worked at a company with a real IT
department, have you?

hmm. I'm root ... :-)

Ours doesn't allow anything out of the firewall
without passing through proxies that they can monitor, and that means web
telnet, or ftp only.

I have the doubtful pleasure to host a site for someone (google translates
it with 'work council') who needs to access the site from within the
company he is working for (Swarovski crystal [1]).

Not even ssh, which is a royal pain in the ass.

you can change the port ssh is using (but you might then violate our
company's usage policy)

#m

[1] their headquarter is only 15 minutes by car away from here.

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