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[cjw]

On 16-May-10 12:47 PM, Jim Byrnes wrote:
> Grant Edwards wrote:
>> On 2010-05-16, cjw<cjw at ncf.ca> wrote:
>>> On 16-May-10 01:31 AM, James Mills wrote:
>>>> On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 3:12 PM, Aahz<aahz at pythoncraft.com> wrote:
>>>>> It's also at least partly due to problems with mail<->news gateways
>>>>> and
>>>>> the differing fields used to maintain threading.
>>>>
>>>> Some blame goes on MUAs too :)
>>>
>>> Thanks for the responses.
>>>
>>> Is it possible to connect a newsreader to gmane?
>>
>> nntp://news.gmane.org/
>>
>
> Could someone please explain how to subscribe to this list on gmane. I
> subscribe to a couple of other groups there but can't find this one.
>
> Regards, Jim

With Thunderbird, you need to set up a new account:

Tools => AccountSettings => Account Actions => Add another account.

=> News Group Account => Next

 From there, it's a matter of filling in the blanks.

The news server is "news.gmane.org".

I'm just trying it.

Colin W,