Re: Fw: Thunderbird V139 loses contact with newsgroup server - cannot send or receive postings until TB is restarted

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.
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news.blueworldhosting.com
nntp.csiph.com
paganini.bofh.team
freenews.netfront.net
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this website links to an extensive list of popular news readers, which
seems to include everything except "xananews" (i prefer 40tude dialog):
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(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

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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