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  • setting up thunderbird to use google news server?

    From Anonymous@21:1/5 to pzion@yahoo.com on Tue Oct 27 21:05:02 2015
    On 07/10/15 02:40, pzion@yahoo.com wrote:
    I'd like to use thunderbird as the news reader program.
    I saw that the nntp address for google is news.google.com, but when I
    try to use it, no newsgroups show up.
    Thunderbird works with nntp.aioe.org if it's any help
    See http://www.aioe.org/

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  • From Whiskers@21:1/5 to Anonymous on Thu Oct 29 18:05:02 2015
    On 2015-10-27, Anonymous <user@example.net> wrote:
    On 07/10/15 02:40, pzion@yahoo.com wrote:
    I'd like to use thunderbird as the news reader program.
    I saw that the nntp address for google is news.google.com, but when I
    try to use it, no newsgroups show up.
    Thunderbird works with nntp.aioe.org if it's any help
    See http://www.aioe.org/

    Google does not provide any public NNTP news server access. Any such
    server name you've seen in usenet headers is entirely internal to
    Google. They want you to use the Google Groups web interface with your
    web browser.

    There are news-servers that are free for reading and posting. I suggest
    you look at the newsgroup alt.free.newsservers.

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