Haven't been keeping up on the group the past few months and return to see lots of spam. Is this the new normal here?It is a continuation of an attack, via Google groups servers, that
--Nathanael
On 12/8/23 10:36 PM, Nathanael wrote:
Haven't been keeping up on the group the past few months and returnIt is a continuation of an attack, via Google groups servers, that
to see lots of spam. Is this the new normal here?
--Nathanael
started a while back. It only abated on comp.arch when Google groups
marked that group as read only thus preventing the spammers from
posting from Google.
The web portal at Google groups lets you report spam and I have been
doing that. Not that it seems to have done much good so far.
https://groups.google.com/g/comp.os.cpm
a) I see near to no spam here.
Anyone have any recommendations for a good setup with (free, if
possible) Usenet feed?
I've registered at eternal-september, but Thunderbird and Claws cannot connect to the server. There's something I'm not sussing about
configuration. I'll have to try when I've got time this weekend.
On 14/12/2023 4:54 pm, Nathanael wrote:
...
I've registered at eternal-september, but Thunderbird and Claws cannot connect to the server. There's something I'm not sussing about configuration. I'll have to try when I've got time this weekend.
FWIW these are my TB settings for E-S
Account settings:
Outgoing server (SMTP): Edit SMTP server..
Server Name: news.eternal-september.org Port: 465
Connection security: SSL/TLS
Authentication method: Normal password
User name: <E-S UserID>
Server settings:
Server Name: news.eternal-september.org Port: 119
Connection security: None
Google is leaving USENET. The first decent thing they have
done since coming into existence.
Isn't this the NovaBBS registration form? https://www.novabbs.com/common/register.php
Google is leaving USENET. The first decent thing they have
done since coming into existence.
bill
Never mind, now Thunderbird correctly connects and authenticates to
Eternal September and I'm posting this from the program.
I'm trying to set up Thunderbird for Eternal September too but,
although it does list the public local groups, it still doesn't
access the groups that require authentication.
Is this an outgoing SMTP server provided by Eternal September? I
thought I had to use the server of my own email account. But,
regardless of the server, I can't figure where to set up the password
of the email account.
I've noticed some issues with TB and E-S combination. If I take too long composing a Followup then Send doesn't complete. Only workaround I found
is saving the reply, exiting TB and re-trying. Other problem is Followups don't always show up in the thread. Workaround for that is doing a
'Folder repair' (which wipes custom display settings).
So a bit of a nuisance.
Never mind, now Thunderbird correctly connects and authenticates to
Eternal September and I'm posting this from the program.
It didn't last long. After crashing badly, Thunderbird no longer started
on my even after reinstalling the program. It was unusable, so I
looked for another GUI NNTP client for Linux and found Claws Mail:
https://www.claws-mail.org
So far it seems to be working well.
On Sat, 16 Dec 2023 20:26:55 +0100
Paolo Amoroso <info@paoloamoroso.com> wrote:
Never mind, now Thunderbird correctly connects and authenticates to
Eternal September and I'm posting this from the program.
It didn't last long. After crashing badly, Thunderbird no longer started
on my even after reinstalling the program. It was unusable, so I
looked for another GUI NNTP client for Linux and found Claws Mail:
to undo - and even then some can't such as quoting. TB has grown
into a monster that I wonder whether the developers still have a
handle on it.
I do have some degree of nostalgia for the old readers, rn, trn, xrn,
etc. but not enough to dig up a copy and switch back.
I finally had to lock out updates to TB on Ubuntu. I have a hybrid arrangement for mail where I fetch from a local IMAP and post using SMTP to Gmail. A change made last spring totally broke me and the developers don't want to hear about it. Was a complete PITA to locate a .deb package for the previous version and get back in operation. I won't be trusting them again.
I've long believed that such ego-driven churn and breakage was the enemy of Linux adoption by non-technical folks.
After all these years, I still use 'Tass' the source code of which was originally included in my copy of Coherent (Unix Version 7 clone) back in
the 1990s. It's curses-based.
For those looking for a Usenet provider, http://individual.net/ might be another option. Not free, but at 10 EUR per year certainly affordable. I
am a satisfied customer myself since my UUCP feed shut down.
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