Indeed Usenet lives!
I'm sending this reply via Thunderbird connected to news.gmane.io.
If this works, I think I'll switch away from Mail.app at least for the
GnuCash lists as I like the thread management better, plus the Reply
button defaults to reply-list address and I don't have to edit the
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 ha
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 c
