choice of port for nntp usenet news server

geoffashworth wrote:
I would like to change the port that my usenet news reader uses, currently 119, to port 80, in order to access my news server's new capability. How do I do this?

Thanks,
Geoff

When you set up the usenet connection there was a field to specify the port. It likely defaulted to 119.

But if you want to access your usenet server using port 80, port 80 is a www port. So to use that port you would open your browser, not your usenet reader, and put into the address field the url http://yourUsenetServerWebAddress.topLevelDomain.

Hello

The Thoth User Guide says:
Go to the "News Server Settings" dialog box. In the "News Server"
topic, you can select non-standard ports by appending a colon and the
port number to the News Server name in the News Server text box. For
example, if you wanted to use port 15029 on the news server,
"wonderful.news.server.com", you'd enter,
"wonderful.news.server.com:15029" (without the quotes, of course).

hope this helps 🙂

I'm glad I could help 😀