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

On Tue, 24 Jun 2025 03:59:44 GMT, LV-426 <noreply@noreply.com> wrote:

On 2025-06-23 11:27?p.m., D wrote:

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:

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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):

snips

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)

>
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

>
Thanks a lot, I'll check that ng. I still have my install of Xnews, which
continues to work flawlessly on Windows. But it would be nice to be able to
make use of Thunderbird as well.

yes, and good luck with using t-bird (mozilla thunderbird is probably the
most popular usenet newsreader in the world today) . . . i used xnews for
several years before switching to 40tude almost twenty years ago (i liked
xnews for many reasons, slrn-style scoring, etc., but non-ascii character
sets wouldn't display, and 40tude always had the best features especially
for scoring) . . . sometimes legacy freeware (unmaintained, abandoned) is
nice since it doesn't get nagging updates (which mozilla is notorious for)