Well, I’ll be. I never delved into it after I found out my ISP at the time was dropping their server. I wasn’t really using it that much at the time anyway.
And yes, I was using Thunderbird as a reader. (I think it was just Mozilla News or something back in ’93) I also thought Google Groups had been obliterated, but I see it is still up indeed. Thanks! Regards, Adrien > On Jul 7, 2020 w28d189, at 12:04 PM, John Ralls <jra...@ceridwen.us> wrote: > > The ISP's view of NNTP is just port 119. Does yours really block it? Try this > in Terminal: > nc -z news.gmane.io 119 > It should respond > Connection to news.gmane.io port 119 [tcp/nntp] succeeded! > > Provided that works you should be able to find a news reader program -- > Mozilla's Thunderbird mail client used to work for that -- and connect to > gmane. > > Once upon a time News operated as a store-and-forward service like email and > in the early days of the commercial internet (soon after the US Department of > Defense handed control over to the Department of Commerce in 1992) and > internet service providers became a thing it was common for ISPs to set up > News servers alongside their mail servers to participate in that. It didn't > take long for the news to be centralized and it was no longer necessary for > ISPs to provide it. By the turn of the century the web had taken over the > mind share and News withered. Many of the old newsgroups live on as Google > Groups, e.g. https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/comp.lang.C and > https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/alt.swedish.chef.bork.bork.bork > > *and* > nc -z -u groups.google.com 119 > Connection to groups.google.com port 119 [udp/nntp] succeeded! > > So if you want to go full retro, you still can. _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
