Does Exchange support NNTP newsgroups?

[Scott Bass]

Hi,

I'd like to push my IT department into using internal NNTP newsgroups as a
means of communication within my company. I used this at a previous company
and it was quite effective.

This site states that Exchange (and IIS) support newsgroups (I assume this
means NNTP): http://www.newsreaders.com/win/servers.html

Can Exchange and/or IIS be configured to support NNTP? (if IIS supports it I
will set it up on my home server as a POC).

Finally, and I know this is an Exchange centric newsgroup, but if this would
be a "really bad idea", and you would suggest other software instead, please
let me know.

Thanks,
Scott

[Ed Crowley [MVP]]

Exchange 2003 supports NNTP, but adoption was not high and it was dropped in
later versions.
--
Ed Crowley MVP
"There are seldom good technological solutions to behavioral problems."
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[Scott Bass]

Thanks for the reply Ed, much appreciated. I'll investigate non-Microsoft
options. I assume IIS does not support NNTP; I didn't see an option to
install it as a component when I installed IIS.

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