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Baffled by Usenet newsgroups [Solved] (lemmy.ca)

submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) by pglpm@lemmy.ca to c/usenet@lemmy.world

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I'd like to subscribe and occasionally post to some usenet newsgroup like sci.physics or sci.physics.research. It's difficult! I tried to simply enter "sci.physics" in Thunderbird's Newsgroup reader, but apparently it doesn't work simply like that... Even subscribing to news.eternal-september.org didn't help – I think my understanding of providers and groups is very confused.

Could anyone kindly help?

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[–] donio@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Since you are asking on Lemmy: "provider" or "news server" is like the Lemmy instance and "newsgroup" is like the Lemmy community except it's a shared namespace across all servers that carry the group so sci.physics is sci.physics everywhere.

[–] pglpm@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 day ago

That's a useful analogy, cheers!