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    From Marco Moock@21:1/5 to All on Wed Feb 21 08:31:43 2024
    This is only relevant for those people who read or post in that
    newsgroup using Google Groups. Please ignore it, if you use another
    service.

    I post it again, so it shows up first when people read via GG after
    Google depeerd.

    Google will discontinue Usenet in Google Groups tomorrow.

    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/


    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 The Doctor@21:1/5 to mm+usenet-es@dorfdsl.de on Wed Feb 21 14:43:27 2024
    In article <ur48sv$306jf$3@dont-email.me>,
    Marco Moock <mm+usenet-es@dorfdsl.de> wrote:
    This is only relevant for those people who read or post in that
    newsgroup using Google Groups. Please ignore it, if you use another
    service.

    I post it again, so it shows up first when people read via GG after
    Google depeerd.

    Google will discontinue Usenet in Google Groups tomorrow.

    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/


    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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