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.

You need 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/

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.

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On 19/02/2024 06:23, Simon Mason wrote:

On Monday, February 19, 2024 at 11:17:22 AM UTC, Marco Moock wrote:

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

Too much spam on newsgroups these days to faff about setting up a new reader. It's become a dead medium.

Spam is pretty easy to deal with.

Out and out off-topic trolling, of the sort that you and certain other
chavs have indulged in during the recent and not so recent past, is less straightforward.

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