Re: How to use thunderbird for this group?

fordiesel69@xxxxxxx wrote:
On Apr 29, 9:01 pm, seymour-shabow <seymour.sha...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
seymour-shabow wrote:
fordiese...@xxxxxxx wrote:
A memeber here says he uses thunderbird email client to read and post
to this group. Any idea how to configure? I did not have luck.
signup for a free news account at news.cnntp.org
they have step by step what to enter for the server info.
-scott CARGPB#29
whoops, that'swww.cnntp.orgfor the webpage to sign up, the news server
address is news.cnntp.org

-scott

I signed up for cnntp and now I just cant find the tutorial.

That's because it's probably on another site, [sorry] but here's how you do it

launch thunderbird

File->New->Account

select newsgroup

Enter info in boxes (name/email)

enter news.cnntp.org in the newsgroup server box

enter an account name (I use news.cnntp.org, this can be anything)

click finish

right click on the account you just created and select subscribe

It should connect to the server and ask you for your username and password - enter what cnntp.org sent you when you registered, there should be an option to remember this info so you don't have to do it everytime.

The first time you connect you should get a list of newsgroups available, type rec.games.pinball to filter and click the box to subscribe.


This should work some things you should know about reading newsgroups via a feed vs. an interface on google/other website - server space is limited so news servers will only keep between 5 days-couple weeks on their servers, so old messages are best read via google; you can get a premium news account at places like giganews that will hold 2-3 years worth of articles, but of course it's not free.

I like to have my tbird set up with "show threads with unread" (under the view menu), that way I get a tree of discussions you can expand all with the * key, that will show you all the messages with unread and subject/repliers. I can tell based on the messages which are going to be a 'bump' or something like that without bothering to read it. (Bumping is pretty much meaningless when you sort via threads sorted by something other than last post.)

Based on the google news outage yesterday it's clear 95% of people are reading RGP via google, or there are a lot of lurkers that are using newsreaders - it was pretty dead here yesterday.

-scott CARGPB#29
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