On Thu, 08 Jan 2009 01:18:04 GMT, in message < >,
Crash wrote:
> X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.21/32.243
>
> I scanned all of giganews.com's Usenet Newsgroups for
> "firefox" and found nothing. I was flabbergasted!
> If I were a wagering man, I'd have lost a paycheck.
>
> I did *stumble* onto these two:
> netscape.public.mozilla.browser, alt.fan.mozilla
> ...they both give good technical help.
>
>
> ...but I'm unsure they are the best NGs to get
> Firefox help, since the product name is not mentioned,
> and I guess "the best" one could be named anything,
> and I wouldn't know it. Are there any others?
As others have replied, use the newsgroup "mozilla.support.firefox"
which is on the news server "news.mozilla.org".
The news server "news.mozilla.org" carries the mozilla.*
newsgroups, but does not carry general usenet newsgroups.
You will need to both keep your current news server and
use the news server news.mozilla.org.
To handle multiple news servers in Free Agent 1.21,
you need to set up a separate "instance" of Free Agent
for each news server.
See the Free Agent 1.21 help file at
Index » Multi-user » How to configure Agent for multiple users
and where it says "each user" interpret this as "each news server".
> This name-vagueness also makes it tempting to
> simply always crosspost to both. Is that cool?
The netscape.public.mozilla.* newsgroups are officially abandoned
and almost dead.
Read this message:
http://groups.google.com/group/netsc...678c39134833f2
And this:
http://groups.google.com/group/netsc...7f972a2befdaf9
Discussions moved very rapidly from the netscape.public.mozilla.*
newsgroups to the mozilla.* newsgroups on the news server
news.mozilla.org, back in 2006.
> It's prolly irrational, but this coyness on
> Mozilla's part does not inspire confidance.
Is this now turning to trolling for bites?
> Don't ask me why.
>
> Thoughts?
> Thanks!
--
Cheers,
Ralph
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