# Comp.lang.fortran and Fortran-lang relation **URL:** \ **Category:** Meta\ **Created:** [October 7, 2022, 9:18pm UTC](https://fortran-lang.discourse.group/t/comp-lang-fortran-and-fortran-lang-relation/4495 "2022-10-07T21:18:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 12
**Author:** ![vmagnin](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/fortran-lang.discourse.group/vmagnin/32/28_2.png) [@vmagnin](https://fortran-lang.discourse.group/u/vmagnin)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2022, 7:58pm UTC](https://fortran-lang.discourse.group/t/comp-lang-fortran-and-fortran-lang-relation/4495/12 "2022-10-20T19:58:12Z")
Ivan, this is what I wrote in another [post about comp.lang.fortran](https://fortran-lang.discourse.group/t/comp-lang-fortran-37-years-of-discourse/1071): > 20 years ago, most universities were proposing a Usenet access via the NNTP protocol (port 119). It has become more difficult nowadays. Personally, I am for several years using a Danish server of the Aalborg University, where I registered freely (see [Usenet - dotsrc](https://dotsrc.org/usenet/)), with my Mozilla Thunderbird email client. NNTP is used for reading and SMTP for posting. Once it is configured in Thunderbird, you use it exactly like e-mail. The only visible difference is that it is a kind of public e-mail! See [Creating a Newsgroup Account | Thunderbird Help](https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/creating-newsgroup-account) I don’t know if other e-mail clients like Outlook still manage newsgroups… Or if some webmail can do it… --- _[View the full topic](https://fortran-lang.discourse.group/t/comp-lang-fortran-and-fortran-lang-relation/4495)._