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    From Zorro@21:1/5 to All on Mon Jan 30 12:22:00 2023
    For 3 years now, I've been using thunderbird to access the tcl news group using news.aioe.org. For over 2 weeks now that site seems to be down.

    Is there another free, no account needed, alternative to that one?

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  • From Rich@21:1/5 to Zorro on Mon Jan 30 20:54:45 2023
    Zorro <[email protected]> wrote:
    For 3 years now, I've been using thunderbird to access the tcl news
    group using news.aioe.org. For over 2 weeks now that site seems to
    be down.

    Yes, and there's been no clear indication why that I've found.

    Is there another free, no account needed, alternative to that one?

    I don't know any other "no account needed" but eternal september (https://www.eternal-september.org/) is also free, and allows for
    freely registering an account.

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  • From Rich@21:1/5 to Zorro on Mon Jan 30 23:05:40 2023
    Zorro <[email protected]> wrote:
    On Monday, January 30, 2023 at 12:54:49 PM UTC-8, Rich wrote:
    Zorro <[email protected]> wrote:
    For 3 years now, I've been using thunderbird to access the tcl news
    group using news.aioe.org. For over 2 weeks now that site seems to
    be down.
    Yes, and there's been no clear indication why that I've found.
    Is there another free, no account needed, alternative to that one?
    I don't know any other "no account needed" but eternal september
    (https://www.eternal-september.org/) is also free, and allows for
    freely registering an account.

    Thanks, It took me forever to finally find that you have to hit the
    refresh button after all the setup to get more than the standard eternal-september set. Whew!!!

    A log out and back in would likely have achieved the same end result.

    Now I can read messages w/o google removing all leading spaces.
    Can't imagine how python readers could ever use google groups.

    Yes, the leading spaces are in the message, but HTML collapses them
    back out.

    You might also consider configuring your reader to pre-wordwrap your
    messages, otherwise they end up as really big single long lines for
    many of us.

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  • From Zorro@21:1/5 to Rich on Mon Jan 30 14:41:00 2023
    On Monday, January 30, 2023 at 12:54:49 PM UTC-8, Rich wrote:
    Zorro <[email protected]> wrote:
    For 3 years now, I've been using thunderbird to access the tcl news
    group using news.aioe.org. For over 2 weeks now that site seems to
    be down.
    Yes, and there's been no clear indication why that I've found.
    Is there another free, no account needed, alternative to that one?
    I don't know any other "no account needed" but eternal september (https://www.eternal-september.org/) is also free, and allows for
    freely registering an account.

    Thanks, It took me forever to finally find that you have to hit the refresh button after all the setup to get more than the standard eternal-september set. Whew!!!

    Now I can read messages w/o google removing all leading spaces. Can't imagine how python readers could ever use google groups.

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  • From Luc@21:1/5 to Zorro on Mon Jan 30 20:24:50 2023
    Note that you can hide your real address in Eternal September:

    http://www.eternal-september.org/index.php?showpage=terms

    --
    Luc

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    On Mon, 30 Jan 2023 14:41:00 -0800 (PST), Zorro wrote:

    Thanks, It took me forever to finally find that you have to hit the
    refresh button after all the setup to get more than the standard eternal-september set. Whew!!!

    Now I can read messages w/o google removing all leading spaces. Can't
    imagine how python readers could ever use google groups.

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  • From pd@21:1/5 to Zorro on Tue Jan 31 22:37:43 2023
    On 31/1/23 06:22, Zorro wrote:
    For 3 years now, I've been using thunderbird to access the tcl news group using news.aioe.org. For over 2 weeks now that site seems to be down.

    Is there another free, no account needed, alternative to that one?

    Consider astraweb. Not free but very cheap. I bought 25gb for $10 many
    years ago and have hardly dented that just reading c.l.tcl. Works well
    with thunderbird.

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