Mozilla/Firefox UseNet discussion group

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A lot of questions regarding the various Mozilla products are being
posted to this group. There is an actual discussion group for
Mozilla - netscape.public.mozilla.general . This may provide more
thorough & quicker answers to any queries.
 
An Metet said:
There is an actual discussion group for
Mozilla - netscape.public.mozilla.general .
Indeed. Unfortunately, discussions among and questions from end
users are not its purpose. The only "official" end-user groups are on
netscape's secure server, to which many newsreaders do not have access
without assistance from a third-party app. AFAIK, the only truly public
newsgroup appropriate to end user queries is alt.fan.mozilla and it is
hardly worth the effort, as far as I can determine.
 
The only "official" end-user groups are on
netscape's secure server, to which many newsreaders do not have access
without assistance from a third-party app.

That seems a daft arrangement, unless of course the Mozilla developers
actually *want* end-users to have no way of communicating their feedback.
 
And said:
That seems a daft arrangement, unless of course the Mozilla
developers actually *want* end-users to have no way of
communicating their feedback.

One can always use Mozilla to access the Mozilla user support
groups. Its own newsreader supports SSL.

And for those of us who want to use newsreaders that do not
support SSL, the third party programs are not that hard to
use. I access the groups with Xnews.

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Robin T Cox said:
That seems a daft arrangement, unless of course the Mozilla developers
actually *want* end-users to have no way of communicating their feedback.
Well, maybe not: As I see it, the presumption is that users are,
by-and-large using Mozilla's or Netscape's built-in newsreader or the
standalone spinoff. Of course, they support the protocol; there must be
other free newsreaders that do, too but I don't know what they are.
 
Indeed. Unfortunately, discussions among and questions from end
users are not its purpose. The only "official" end-user groups are on
netscape's secure server, to which many newsreaders do not have access
without assistance from a third-party app.

OE supports SSL, but then again one could argue that most OE-users
stay with IE and therefore don't need that group.

As for user-to-user support, there really isn't a better place (usenet
included) than the forums at mozillazine.org.
 
And for those of us who want to use newsreaders that do not
support SSL, the third party programs are not that hard to
use. I access the groups with Xnews.

What's the address of Netscape's secure server?
 
One can always use Mozilla to access the Mozilla user support
groups. Its own newsreader supports SSL.

And for those of us who want to use newsreaders that do not
support SSL, the third party programs are not that hard to
use.

I can only recommend Stunnel for this. It magically[1] transforms any
non-SSL speaking client into an SSL speaking one. It's open source.

http://www.stunnel.org

[1] It's a local proxy.
 
And said:
One can always use Mozilla to access the Mozilla user
support groups. Its own newsreader supports SSL.

And for those of us who want to use newsreaders that do
not support SSL, the third party programs are not that
hard to use.

I can only recommend Stunnel for this. It magically[1]
transforms any non-SSL speaking client into an SSL speaking
one. It's open source.

I'll second that, as it's what I use. The Xnews homepage has
instructions for setting it up.
http://www.stunnel.org

[1] It's a local proxy.



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Well, maybe not: As I see it, the presumption is that users are,
by-and-large using Mozilla's or Netscape's built-in newsreader or the
standalone spinoff. Of course, they support the protocol; there must be
other free newsreaders that do, too but I don't know what they are.

That's understandable in view of the all-in-one history of Moz and
Netscape: but now that we have the separate component-style of
Firefox/Thunderbird this presumption looks a bit self-defeating.
 
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