From: radioacti...@gmail.com   
      
   Thanks for your posting.  Still, you sound like you're unaware that some of us   
   unsophisticated users have NO CLUE as to how in Heaven's name one can   
   "configure a newsgroup account", something I certainly never did to read this   
   soon-to-be-unavailable alt.   
   obits group!   
      
   Meanwhile, a pal who is NOT an unsophisticated user checked out this   
   Thunderbird thing, and she tells me that at my level of Apple wizardry--which   
   you could describe as "able to log-on and read the internet, but NEVER able to   
   troubleshoot if ANYTHING    
   goes wrong (which often occurs)"--I'm just asking for more endless   
   cyber-trouble   
      
   Here's a simple question:  since I didn't "configure" (or anything else) to   
   get to this newsgroup account--I just merely logged on and typed   
   alt.obituaries into a search engine (which was NOT Google, by the way!), why   
   with all of these alternatives to    
   Google Groups do I have all SORTS of cyber-hurdles in front of me?   
      
   Please understand, I've NEVER been trained on my computer--way way way too far   
   from closest Apple Store--and anyway, I'm a guy who isn't skilled at these   
   things (for instance, never ONCE have I successfully "installed" ANYTHING on   
   my Apple 27-inch Retina-   
   -something ALWAYS goes awry, and I can NEVER troubleshoot it on my own).   
      
   Isn't there some SIMPLE way (i.e., just log onto some site and read alt.obits)   
   to access alt.obits after Google quits next month?  I have zero interest in   
   any other newsgroups, but THIS one is like a lifeline to me.  Thanks for your   
   anticipated response.   
      
   BRYAN STYBLE/Florida   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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