31 Mar
2012
31 Mar
'12
4:36 p.m.
Seems perfectly reasonable to me. The NNTP protocol can be used for lots of things and not just public newsgroup discussions. For a company that has a lot of offices distributed around the world there could be many applications for it.
Microsoft uses it for support of their semi-public product betas. I think they also use it for internal support. R's, John