[Qt-interest] Configuring Thunderbird for Usenet posting to this newsgroup

[Robert Hairgrove]

On Sun, 2011-01-09 at 09:04 -0800, Thiago Macieira wrote:
> On Sunday, 9 de January de 2011 17:25:26 Robert Hairgrove wrote:
> > This should be very easy ... but I can only post messages by sending an
> > e-mail to this group at the above address. Although they do arrive
> > (using Evolution as mail client), I cannot seem to configure
> > Thunderbird, which I use for Usenet, so that the messages appear
> > properly threaded. Each one arrives as a separate post.
> > 
> > I have registered my email address at the Nokia site and received the
> > confirmation mail OK. But T-Bird always says that the "connection was
> > refused". I can RECEIVE messages with no problem, just not send them.
> > 
> > I have tried using nntp.qt.nokia.com and just qt.nokia.com as host name
> > with no luck.
> > 
> > Can anybody give me some instructions? In the previous T-Bird I had
> > running on Ubuntu 8.04, and with the old NNTP server, this was never a
> > problem.
> 
> I think the newsgroup is read-only.
> 
> Please subscribe to the mailing list and post to it instead. You can turn off 
> mail delivery if you prefer to read via NNTP.
> 

Thank you ... will see if this message is placed in the proper thread,
though. I am replying to the email sent, not to the newsgroup.