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

[Nikos Chantziaras]

On 01/09/2011 07:04 PM, 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.

I'm using Thunderbird on nntp.qt.nokia.com.  In this very message.