Loads of spam on comp.lang.fortran

[vmagnin]

@Arjen

I have also tried to set up Thunderbird as a news reader via eternal-september, but that has been a failure as well, probably due to my ignorance about NNTP and similar protocols.

It could be a proxy problem. I am using successfully news://news.uni-stuttgart.de:119 (read-only) in Thunderbird on several machines. And on one machine having a different proxy, it does not work.