Re: Death of news.mozilla.org

Sailfish <[email protected]> Fri, 02 Apr 2021 14:42:49 -0700
Newsgroups gmane.comp.mozilla.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
My bloviated meandering follows what Andy Burns graced us with on 
4/2/2021 12:21 PM:
> Andy Burns wrote:
> 
>> Chris Ilias wrote:
>>
>>> Mozilla is shutting down the newsgroup server (news.mozilla.org) and 
>>> mailing lists (list.mozilla.org)
>>
>> I can't see any TB/FF groups on other news servers
> 
> The three new groups
> 
> alt.comp.software.firefox
> alt.comp.software.thunderbird
> alt.comp.software.seamonkey
> 
> have been created, no doubt population around the various usenet servers 
> will be slow.  At the moment they only exist on news.aioe.org and one or 
> two other servers, I've requested them on a few servers that I use, but 
> will request them on more servers over the next few days.  If they don't 
> show up on servers that you use, feel free to request them there.
> 
> Treat the new groups as substitutes for
> 
> mozilla.support.firefox
> mozilla.support.thunderbird
> mozilla.support.seamonkey
> 
> Clearly the new groups are not affiliated with Mozilla in any way, and 
> will provide user-to-user support, hoping to see familiar faces there, 
> play nice ...

Any chance you can create:

alt.comp.moz.general or
alt.comp.moz.ot

group to replace the mozilla.general for extended off-topic discussions?

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