[Ham-Computers] Looking for a Usenet Server

[Jim Hill]

Thanks, Ron and Mike (who replied directly). I'll start with a little 
background.
Cox discontinued their news server, so googled and discovered 
Thunderbird has a free one.  I set up a personal news account on 
Thunderbird.  News.google.com was automatically selected, but 
Thunderbird couldn't access it. I tried using the old free version of 
Agent to access news.google.com, but still had no luck.

Mike suggested I try the (free) Eternal September server, available 
at 
<http://www.eternal-september.org/>http://www.eternal-september.org 
I tried it using Agent, and it works fine.  They have three servers, 
and I used reader80.eternal-september.org because it seemed the 
easiest to set up.  The other two use encrypted connections.   While 
setting it up on Agent, I noticed the "The server requires a secure 
connection (SSL)" box was checked, and I didn't change it. Eternal 
September requires a user name and password and you sign up before 
using their servers.  Agent has an option to automatically provide 
the username and password.  I have not tried to use it with Thunderbird.

Mike - Google has a text usenet server, but I have only been able to 
access it through google groups.  Info is available at 
<http://groups.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=46609>http://groups.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=46609

List of usenet newsgroups from Google groups
<http://groups.google.com/groups/dir?lnk=od&sel=topic%3D46361>http://groups.google.com/groups/dir?lnk=od&sel=topic%3D46361 

It is so big I found it confusing.  I did find a page that listed 
groups with their individual activities, but lost it.

Here's a link for rec.antiques.radio+phono
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.antiques.radio+phono/topics
Google has a different format than Thunderbird or Agent.

Jim





At 12:07 AM 10/28/2010, you wrote:
>Hi:
>Cox no longer provides a news server, so I can't access the usenet or
>n  snip..............