Mozilla’s Dave Miller recently announced that Mozilla newsgroups have been moved from Netscape servers to Mozilla own servers. The new newsgroup server is news.mozilla.org.

If you are unfamilar with newsgroups think of them as electronic bulletin boards organized by topics, in this case all of them related to Mozilla such as support, extension development and news on Firefox, Thunderbird and other Mozilla products.

To access these, just follow these steps to configure Thunderbird:

- In the Tools menu select Acount Settings…

- Press the Add Account… button. This will start the Account Wizard

- Select Newsgroup account

- Enter your name and an e-mail address. These will appear as your identification when posting messages to any newsgroup.

- Enter the newsgroup server address: news.mozilla.org

- Enter a name for this account.

- Verify the entered information and press Finish.

- Next step is subscribing to specific newsgroups in the server (account) you just set up.

- Right click on Mozilla Newsgroup or the name you have assigned to the account and select Subscribe...

- It will take a few seconds for Thunderbird to retrieve the name of all available newsgroups in the account. Then you can check the newsgroups you want to subscribe to and press Subscribe.

- Press OK and you are ready to start checking messages in each newsgroup.