Re: XP SP2 Firewall and Newsreaders

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Date: Mon, 04 Jul 2005 23:34:09 -0400

In article <Ojg7p9QgFHA.1248@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl>,
 Malke <notreally@invalid.com> wrote:

Thanks for your answer.

> Sorry, no free email support. You also shouldn't require an automatic
> email answer to a newsgroup post; most people will simply not bother to
> answer you. I'm carefully replying to your first post in this thread
> because the second one you made makes sending an email to you
> mandatory. No way am I sending my email address to some stranger on
> Usenet. You seriously limit your answers that way. Also, posting your
> real unmunged email address on Usenet and messageboards will get you
> lots of spam. Here is a link explaining that:
>
> http://www.mailmsg.com/SPAM_munging.htm
>
I'm well aware of spam issues; I don't need a lecture on this topic. I
choose not to care owing to very aggressive spam filters coupled with the
realization that your address will eventually get out there.

I prefer emailed replies as I don't have time to check all the newsgroups I
use with regularity. I understand your concerns but I've used usenet for
going on 20 years and it has always been accepted protocol.

Back to the topic at hand.
> There is nothing in the XPSP2 firewall (or ZoneAlarm or Sygate) that
> needs to be adjusted to allow regular newsgroup posting. I don't often
> post with Windows, but I did all last week using Thunderbird on XPSP2
> with no problems. If you are running your own NNTP server that is
> something different of course, but that's not the impression I get from
> your posts. Are you behind a corporate firewall or have some sort of
> corporate filtering in place? Using an email proxy?
>
> Malke

This is our university's news server and I am using my work PC to access it.
I know that it uses the standard NNTP port (119) and other newsreaders on
various platforms work flawlessly. As an example, using my work or home mac
(OS X or OS 9), news always flows freely. Likewise, if I turn off the
firewall, news flows unimpeded. Turn it back on and it slows to a crawl.
Therefore, XP's firewall IS certainly involved, if not the cause.

So the question remains: What must I do to XP's firewall to make it work
right? If it can't do people recommend other free firewalls?

-- 
Tim Lapin
timl@sympatico.ca

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