nemesis <nam### [at] gmailcom> wrote:
> ok, after getting fed up with either the news.povray.org web interface or
> our proxy, I got to finally try out some newsgroups clients.
>
> 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...
>
> except that I have the hateful Lotus Notes here.  Hate it, but found out
> that it does newsgroups as well.  Well, here I am!  does it look good to
> you?
> if not, say it that I'll drop the damned thing altogether... :D

I'm not sure, if they block any connection, but couldn't you use thunderbird
portable on a usb-drive or something like that?
It is legible, so it's also ok this way.

               bluetree

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