On 8/4/2011 8:08 AM, George wrote:
> On 8/3/2011 10:45 PM, John Kuthe wrote:
>> > wrote in message
>> ...
>>>> John wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Got an Eternal-September account now. Tried looking up free Usenet
>>>>> News
>>>>> Readers, and they all suck! So let;'s see how this flies!
>>>
>>> Uses Firefox but ignores Thunderbird.
>>>
>>> -13 points for JK.
>>>
>>> -sw
>>
>> I actually DLed Thunderbird and tried to set it up as my news reader, but
>> could not find in it where to put my news server UserID and password!
>> So I
>> bailed it.
>>
>> John Kuthe...
>>
>>
>>
> It is pretty straighforward, when you launch it the first time it starts
> a wizard, pick news and feed it the info. Or "account settings" "account
> actions" "add a new account"

The last action is very useful. I used it to add news.mozilla.com since
Mozilla/Thunderbird insists on running its own (free) news server.
Mozilla.support.thunderbird is particularly useful.

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James Silverton, Potomac

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