[pmwiki-users] NewsGroup help

[Patrick R. Michaud]

On Wed, Feb 08, 2006 at 01:33:36PM +0000, Susan wrote:
> I'm trying to read this group as a newsgroup using Thunderbird.
> 
> "Enter the name of your news server (NNTP) (for example, "news.example.net").
> 
> nntp://news.gmane.org/gmane.comp.web.wiki.pmwiki.user
> 
> And it tells me:
> 
> "Please enter a valid hostname."
> 
> Ideas?

Try just the hostname 'news.gmane.org'.  I think that after
the connection is made you can browse to the exact newsgroup
that you want.

Pm