Re: [PROPOSAL Mk2] alt.comp.software.thunderbird

Andy Burns <[email protected]> wrote:

>For your newsgroups file:
>alt.comp.software.thunderbird	Community support of mail/news client.

The syntax is correct.

Are you familiar with the syntax required of control message headers? If
you want me to check over the syntax, post your headers and I'll do
that.

Traditionally, one waits a week after proposing a newsgroup before
sending the newgroup message.

Good luck with promoting it.

>CHARTER

>A group for unofficial support of Thunderbird by the community of users, 
>discussion will include configuration, add-ons and features in new 
>versions.  Advertising and binaries and multipart postings with HTML 
>alternative parts are off-topic.

Looks fine.

>JUSTIFICATION

>Existing discussions of Thunderbird take place on the private nntp 
>server news.mozilla.org, the group mozilla.support.thunderbird had 3376 
>messages in the last 12 months. Unfortunately this server will be closed 
>down after 3rd April 2021.

>Other available groups include alt.fan.mozilla (essentially dead in 
>recent years and doesn't separate topics between thunderbird and 
>seamonkey or firefox) plus a french language group alt.fr.outil.thunderbird

This is mainly for you to know where to promote the proposed group.