Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2025 04:27:35 +0100
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Subject: Re: Fw: Thunderbird V139 loses contact with newsgroup server - cannot
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On Tue, 24 Jun 2025 01:44:25 GMT, LV-426 <noreply@noreply.com> wrote:
>On 2025-06-05 10:48?a.m., D wrote:
snip
>>there're at least a dozen free newservers most that allow posting, but
>>some servers have better and longer article retention than others, e.g.
>>
>> news.blueworldhosting.com
>> nntp.csiph.com
>> paganini.bofh.team
>> freenews.netfront.net
>>
>>this website links to an extensive list of popular news readers, which
>>seems to include everything except "xananews" (i prefer 40tude dialog):
>>
>>(using Tor Browser 14.5.3)
>>https://maccafe.fr/serveurs_en.html
>>>A list of free newsreaders:
>>>Denis (DV) web page
>>>http://usenet-fr.yakakwatik.org/newsreaders.html
>>>1.Introduction
>>>2.Newsreaders
>>>   40Tude Dialog (Windows)
>>>   Betterbird (Linux / Windows / macOS)
>>>   Claws-Mail (Linux / Windows / macOS)
>>>   Evolution (Linux)
>>>   flnews (Linux, UNIX systems)
>>>   Gnus (Linux / Windows / macOS)
>>>   Gravity (Windows)
>>>   MacCafe (macOS)
>>>   MacSOUP (macOS = 10.14)
>>>   MesNews (Windows)
>>>   ModNewsreader (Android and its forks)
>>>   Pan (Linux)
>>>   SeaMonkey (Linux / Windows / macOS)
>>>   slrn (Linux / Windows / macOS)
>>>   Sylpheed (Linux / Windows / macOS)
>>>   Thunderbird (Linux / Windows / macOS)
>>>   tin (Linux / Windows / macOS)
>>>   Xnews (Windows)
>>>3.References and useful links
>>[end quote]
>
>Are you or anyone else able to access news groups from Thunderbird 139+ on
> Windows 10? I've used Thunderbird over the years, but for the life of me I
> can't find how to actually view the newsgroups after I configure a news
> server account. I don't see the newsgroups icon on the left hand nav/tool
> bar. Is there some special trick or other method you are supposed to use to
> access this?

i tested t-bird/b-bird about three years ago and found them more complicated
than i could make use of (still preferring classic newsreaders 40tude dialog
for reading, and the very old free agent for posting) . . . recommend asking
t-bird questions in news:alt.comp.software.thunderbird which newsgroup (also
news:alt.comp.os.windows-10 and news:alt.comp.os.windows-11) i've subscribed
to for years, but every active newsgroup seems to be overrun (mostly, anyway)
with troll-bot twattle ... even so, usenet has survived three decades of the
pesky hobgoblins, and sometimes genuine (non-robot) contributors are helpful