This newsgroup (comp.lang.python) may soon be blocked by Google Gro

[Richard Damon]

On 2/9/18 4:12 PM, Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 10, 2018 at 8:05 AM,  <codewizard at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Friday, February 9, 2018 at 2:48:17 PM UTC-5, Chris Green wrote:
>>> codew... at gmail.com wrote:
>>>> On Saturday, February 3, 2018 at 7:15:16 PM UTC-5, pyotr filipivich wrote:
>>>>> [snip]
>>>>>          Those of us who do not use google-groups may not notice the loss
>>>>> of the google groupies.
>>>> I use GG to read comp.lang.python because of the following combination
>>>> of factors. I would definitely be happier if there was another way to
>>>> do this, so that I wouldn't have to wade through lots of spam.
>>>>
>>>>    - I read it from both home and work.
>>>>
>>>>    - I can't install any additional software at work.
>>>>
>>>>    - There is no newsgroup reader software available at work.
>>>>
>>>>    - GG tracks read/unread status of every post. This is shared
>>>>      between work and home through my Google account.
>>>>
>>>>    - When I (very rarely) post from work, I can't
>>>>      do it by email, since outgoing email is blocked.
>>>>
>>> Alternative approach, what I do:-
>>>
>>>      Run a text mode (but very capable and mouse aware) newsreader on
>>>      my home system, read news locally using that.
>>>
>>>      Use ssh (is that available at worK?) to connect from work to home
>>>      and run the same newsreader in the same environment. If you can't
>>>      even ssh from work then you can always use an 'ssh from the web'
>>>      app from your wenb browser.
>>>
>>> The newsreader I use is tin by the way.
>>>
>>> --
>>> Chris Green
>>> ·
>> ssh would be even a bigger problem here. As I mentioned, I can't even email
>> from work to the outside! All web sites that provide remote connectivity
>> tools are blocked.
> ... yet they're okay with you browsing newsgroups? I think you may
> have a Layer Eight conflict here.
>
> ChrisA

If he can browse, he can get E-Mail with Gmail/Yahoo/AOL/etc, his normal 
mail ISP likely even supports some form of Web Mail Client.

If they are blocking these, but not Google Groups, there is a major 
disconnect in the rules.

-- 
Richard Damon