On Fri, 25 Jan 2008 08:27:48 -0800, Chambers wrote:

> nemesis wrote:
>> At home I installed Mozilla Thunderbird and it's fine enough for the
>> task.  Here at work, I tried to install it, but our admins blocked
>> downloads
>> of executables.  That's ok, because I discovered it was still possible
>> to install it by ftp, they seemingly were only aware of how to block
>> http requests.  Today, though, I sadly found out that they now blocked
>> ftp as well, so I felt out of options.  except...
> 
> Those darned admins.  At my job, they block the NNTP protocol, so I
> can't read ng with anything other than the web interface :(

http://www.nocrew.org/software/httptunnel.html

I've used this myself when I absolutely needed the ability to use NNTP 
and the port was blocked.

Jim

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