Approaching the problem...

[Peter Hansen]

Alex Martelli wrote:
> 
> <mothra1774 at my-deja.com> wrote:
> >    I work in a "managed environment" where we are
> > prevented from reading newsgroups (other than by
> > using a website such as dejanews). Using the web
> > to read newsgroups can be a little bit tedious at
> > times. =]
> 
> Indeed.  So what do the powers in charge of this
> 'managed environment' think they're accomplishing
> by blocking NNTP newsfeeds and allowing clumsy,
> inefficient HTTP ones?  The same information will
> 
> Once I'm convinced that a technical solution is
> appropriate, I would start looking for "the simplest
> thing that can possibly work".  Basically, I want
> a newsfeed, and I can grab the information to make
> one up, but that information starts in the wrong
> format -- I just have to massage it into the right
> one.  Clearly, if I can install a real netnews
> management system, and just feed it from my own

Of course, if one of the inmates :-) managed to implement such a
solution, it wouldn't speak well of management's ability to manage this
managed environment in the first place.  

Where do these people get their ideas?  Maybe they just never read
Brooks, or anything ever published about programming ever since...

-- 
Peter Hansen