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It could possibly just be that news.grc.com is down, but only if there are also very odd bugs in Thunderbird.
I think my attempts to get it going have resulted in me losing all my old messages.
That was short lived. As of now using SSL/.LS does NOT work at all.
And a new wrinkle:
I can read messages just fine using port 119 and no security. But, I cannot post anything. I get "Sending of the message failed.
The message could not be sent because connecting to Outgoing server (SMTP) news.grc.com failed. The server may be unavailable or is refusing SMTP connections. Please verify that your Outgoing server (SMTP) settings are correct and try again."
So, it's read only for me at present. Probably explains why no one is posting at present.
But try again afterwards and the post seems to disappear, never to be seen.
Also, follow-ups disappear never to be seen.
Also, since the entire purpose of a news reader posting it to post it publicly, why is it so important if SSL works?
It's not hugely important to me, just hides the password I use so only I can cancel my postings.
However, I can't reliably post even without TLS with Thunderbird 102.2.0 and there appears to be no easy route back to Thunderbird 91.13.0.
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The newsgroups are effectively read only for me.
Just occasionally I have managed to make a very small single line post in grc.test, but that's all that's possible.
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