On Friday, March 11, 2016 at 2:15:27 PM UTC-6, Bruce wrote:
> On Fri, 11 Mar 2016 12:08:26 -0800 (PST), John Kuthe
> > wrote:
>
> >On Friday, March 11, 2016 at 1:57:37 PM UTC-6, graham wrote:
> >> I use Thunderbird for newsgroups. When I try to post, I keep getting a
> >> "You are not allowed to post" message. I have to re-subscribe to the
> >> newsgroup each time before the message posts. Damned annoying!!!!!!
> >> It's not the provider.
> >> Has anyone else had this problem?
> >
> >Thunderbird is an email clinet program that tries to pretend it's also purports itself to be a Usenet newsreader program, and does not know the differences between SMTP email and Usenet newsgroups! POS software!! Run away.
>
> And you use Google Groups. I'm laughing so hard you must be able to
> hear me.
>
> --
> Bruce

I lost my last free versoin of Free Agent newsreader last time I did a wipe/reload of my WinXP computer, and have not yet gotten another real Usenet Newsreader program. Suffer! ;-)

John Kuthe...