On 11/14/20 3:18 PM, Dan Marotta wrote:
On 11/14/20 2:05 PM, jp wrote:
On Saturday, November 14, 2020 at 10:54:05 AM UTC-8, Dan Marotta wrote:
On 11/14/20 10:16 AM, jp wrote:
Thank you to all who have offered me help with setting up
Thunderbird as a reader for rec.aviation.soaring. In spite of the
help I have not been able to figure out how to set it up. I don't
mind really. Google Groups is good enough for me.

I don't know what you've tried previously, but these instructions will
work for thunderbird:
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb...sgroup-account

Sorry, I can't seem to make this work as a hyperlink but you can copy
and paste it into your browser.

I set the newsgroup to: news.eternal-september.org, port 119 which was
the default

If you use eternal-september.org as your newsreader, you need to go to
their website and set up an account. There's further information there
to make it all work.

Eventually, you'll have to subscribe to the newsgroup during the setup.
Look out! When first set up, you'll be presented with close to 100,000
threads. You'll have to mark as read most of them to clean up. It
doesn't take too long...

Good luck!

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Dan
5J
Thank you Dan.Â* I gave it another try, using your suggestions.Â* It
seemed to set up ok but when I clicked on "Get Messages" nothing
seemed to happen.Â* Maybe I didn't wait long enough.Â* I'll try again.


As I recall there was some detail that I found on eternal-september.org
that made the difference.Â* It was one setting.Â* I'll take another look
and see if I can find it.

First off, I right clicked on the newly created Soaring Newsgroup that
I'd created and selected "Subscribe", then entered rec.aviation.soaring.

Question: Did you register on eternal-september.org?

And this is the last thing I picked up from eternal-september.org:

Client Settings
Server name: news.eternal-september.org
Port : 119 (NNTP)
Port : 563 (encrypted connection NNTPS)

Hope all of that helps!

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Dan
5J