I have a Dell XPS 8500, with Windows 7 Professional, SP1,
with Spywareblaster, Avast, and Windows firewall.
(1) TB HD
Intel (R) Core (TM) i7-33-3770 CPU @ 3.40 GHz 3.40 GHz
Ram 12.0 GB
System type : 64-bit operating system
When discussing recent problems I was having,
some suggested I use this news server:
http://news.eternal-september.org/index.php?showpage=terms
Should I?
Thanks,
Robert
You are currently using Google Groups, a web based
interface to USENET.
Eternal-September is a USENET server. To reach it,
you use a news reader program, such as Thunderbird (mozilla.org)
or Forte Agent or Mesnews etc. One improvement, is
the formatting of messages might be improved slightly.
But depending on your aversion for details (the
setup aspect), you might be just as well off to
stick with what you've got.
You can use both if you want. You could continue
to post to Google Groups, while you work through
the steps of getting the username/password
from the Eternal-September site. You have to
register to get an account there, but having
an account, also means that trouble-makers
can be bounced from that server. So having
an account system, is a good thing.
So it's purely up to you, if you want to work
on this project, of getting a username from
Eternal-September, then setting up Thunderbird
so you can post to port 119. Then when you go
back to Google Groups, you should be able to
see those posts that are being injected via
Eternal September.
http://www.eternal-september.org/index.php?showpage=techinfo
*******
If you want to test your technical skills at installing
Thunderbird, you can use aioe.org as a "test USENET server".
It doesn't use a username/password, to make postings.
It limits postings to 25 postings per day.
http://www.aioe.org/
Getting Thunderbird to install, is not the hard part. The
hard part for a new user, is configuring the connection
to the news server.
There are many tutorials around, which pretend to have
a recipe for setup. But these can be out of date,
and this particular one is missing a crucial step
("View Settings for this account" and "Always Request Authentication"
for usage with Eternal-September and not for aioe.org.
AIOE doesn't need the "Always Request Authentication" tick box.)
So the hard part for me, would be finding a tutorial
that had just exactly the right steps in it for you.
This one is close, but not close enough.
http://www.usenetcentral.com/thunderbird_tutorial.html
Paul
