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    From Marco Moock@21:1/5 to All on Wed Dec 20 12:52:39 2023
    Hello!

    This is only relevant for those people who read or post in that
    newsgroup using Google Groups.

    Google will discontinue Groups in 2024.

    For those who do not know Usenet:

    Usenet is a distributed communication system consisting of many servers.
    Google Groups is only one of them that closes down - other servers will
    stay available, but people need to use another server to read and post
    here.

    There are 2 alternatives:

    Using a web-based Usenet interface:
    Those behave similar to Google Groups, you can read there, but for
    posting you need to register an account for free.

    One of them is: https://www.novabbs.com/computers/thread.php?group=comp.mail.sendmail

    Another alternative is to use an NNTP server with a so called
    newsreader.

    As an NNTP server, some free services exist where you have to register: https://www.eternal-september.org/
    https://solani.org/
    https://www.i2pn2.org/
    https://news.nntp4.net/

    For using it, you need a newsreader.

    Some examples are:
    https://www.thunderbird.net
    https://www.betterbird.eu/
    https://claws-mail.org/
    https://www.seamonkey-project.org/

    You then need to configure a newsgroup account, sometimes also
    called NNTP.

    For most servers, authentication must be enforced in the newsreader's
    settings.

    For Thunderbird, a tutorial is available here: https://www.big-8.org/wiki/Getting_Started_with_Usenet

    For questions about configuring those readers, feel free to ask in
    the group news.software.readers.

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)
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