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    From Marco Moock@21:1/5 to All on Mon Feb 19 12:17:20 2024
    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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  • From JNugent@21:1/5 to Simon Mason on Mon Feb 19 11:53:57 2024
    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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