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Re: Centralised database

From	"Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid>
Newsgroups	alt.comp.software.thunderbird
Subject	Re: Centralised database
Date	2026-05-04 12:38 +0200
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On 2026-05-04 01:40, VanguardLH wrote:
> "J. P. Gilliver" <G6JPG@255soft.uk> wrote:
> 
>> I'd be most surprised if my then employer - a multinational - installed
>> anything like that; I don't think they were _very_ keen on news usage at
>> all.
> 
> Many companies did not want their employees wasting their worktime doing
> Usenet.  Typically time spent in Usenet had nothing to do with their
> work.  They're paying you to work, not play when you're supposed to be
> working.  However, I worked in QA (software and hardware), and Usenet
> was a valuable resource for getting help on many topics germaine to my
> workload.  Plus, in a software dev company, QA, Dev, and Field Support
> employees were often given greater latitude to where they connect, but
> that didn't mean the company wasn't watching where you visited outside
> the corporate network.

Novell had a private nntp server, not connected to Usenet, that was used 
for client support. Clients asked things there, and got replies from 
staff or other clients. Similar to a forum nowdays. In fact, it was 
connected at some point with the opensuse web forum.



-- 
Cheers, Carlos.
ES🇪🇸, EU🇪🇺;

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