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Subject: Re: Newsgroups (Was Another OS/390 to z/OS 1.4 migration
Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2005 21:43:44 GMT
From: Steve Samson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Organization: Road Runner High Speed Online http://www.rr.com
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main
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Steve,
Ah, but Thunderbird does have a news client--that is what I'm using
right now. The first screen in the Add Account dialog asks if you want
to set up an e-mail account, an RSS/blog account, or a newsgroup
account. Just follow the dialogs.
Cheers,
Steve
Steve Comstock wrote:
Steve,
I subscribe to ibm-main, mainframe assembler, and mvs-oe
just fine; posts come as emails and responses go out as
emails. To do this, I am using Thunderbird and a direct
connection to the web.
I also subscribe to TSO-rexx and ISPF; the incoming and
outgoing are also emails, but these are set up through
my AOL account (historical reasons).
AOL used to support groups like comp.lang.cobol and I
used their interface, which was pretty nice. Around the
first of this year AOL stopped supporting this service
and I have been unable to re-connect since, although
I'm sure there's gotta be a way.
There are these terms I've heard:
usenet
usegroups
newsgroups
listservs
The subtleties between these I've never really
focused on, but they are becoming important to
me now.
I'm pretty sure my subscriptions through Thunderbird
are all via the listserv connections.
I went to Tools-Account Settings as you suggest. but I
don't have "any general newsgroup server, usually one
provided by your ISP"; I have email accounts for all
the folks at Trainer's Friend. I don't see a way to
set up a connection to / account with, say, comp.lang.cobol.
I went to Teranews.com (actually, went to Terranews.com
first; different story). Reading their blurb you need
to have a news client and a news server. I'm not sure
that Thunderbird has a news client (actually, I'm pretty
sure they do not); that must be what AOL got rid of.
Anyway, I'm following the links and looking around.
All of a sudden too many choices and no clear, simple,
inexpensive alternative. This will take a while. But
thanks for the pointers.
Kind regards,
-Steve Comstock
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