OT: Anyone using Tweaknews?

Welcome back!

Cheers

Phil Hobbs

Right click on the Tweaknews news server name in TB's folders pane, and click on "Subscribe". A box will open with all the newsgroups available. Click on "Refresh" to update the list. Then just tick the box of the NGs you want to subscribe to.

I don't use Tweaknews, but can't see why TB should deal with it any differently to other news servers.

Thank you. With Jim Thompson gone, I guess I'm one of the more senior ones here at sed.

I contracted COVID-19 in November 2020. Hospitalised with low O2 level but not too bad. Survived a bout of dengue fever in Sept 22. That one almost killed me but I'm OK now.

Oh, I know the procedure for getting the newsgroups list and subscribing to selected ones. It's how I posted the question via news.eternal-september.org.

The problem is with Tweaknews. It won't download the list. It seems their newsserver is down. I've been trying at intervals for the past 12 hours. Thunderbird just wouldn't connect to the server.

I submitted a query to their support several hours ago. No action yet apart from the acknowledgement.

It could just be the latest international computer crash. There's nearly a page on it my local newspaper.

"The IT outage was caused by a fault in the "Falcon sensor" used by the US-based cybersecurity provider CrowdStrike".

It seems to have messed up a lot of services around the world.

Could be. Anyway, I could finish setting up TB for Tweaknews later last night.

Their reply to my query came much later and asked for several details, all of which I'd already submitted except for an error log from my newsreader.

It was predicted in 1961