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Digital Mars news groups are for support, discussion, etc., for anything related to Digital Mars products. The newsgroup server is news.digitalmars.com.

D Programming Language News Groups

D
Retired, use digitalmars.D instead.
D.gnu
GDC, the Gnu D Compiler.
digitalmars.D
General discussion of the D Programming Language.
digitalmars.D.announce
Announcements of new products, libraries, books, etc. on D.
digitalmars.D.bugs
Bug reports for the D compiler and library.
digitalmars.D.dwt
Developing the D Widget Toolkit.
digitalmars.D.dtl
Developing the D Template Library.
digitalmars.D.learn
Questions about learning D.

C and C++ News Groups

c++
General discussion of DMC++ compiler
c++.announce
Announcements about C++
c++.atl
Microsoft's Advanced Template Library
c++.beta
Test versions of various C++ products
c++.chat
Off topic discussions
c++.command-line
Command line tools
c++.dos
DMC++ and DOS
c++.dos.16-bits
16 bit DOS topics
c++.dos.32-bits
32 bit extended DOS topics
c++.idde
The Digital Mars Integrated Development and Debugging Environment.
c++.mfc
Microsoft Foundation Classes
c++.rtl
C++ Runtime Library
c++.stl
Standard Template Library
c++.stl.hp
HP's Standard Template Library
c++.stl.port
STLPort Standard Template Library
c++.stl.sgi
SGI's Standard Template Library
c++.stlsoft
Stlsoft products
c++.windows
Writing C++ code for Microsoft Windows
c++.windows.16-bits
16 bit Windows topics
c++.windows.32-bits
32 bit Windows products
c++.wxwindows
wxWindows

Other News Groups

digitalmars.empire
General discussion of Empire, the Wargame of the Century.
DMDScript
General discussion of DMDScript.
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  11. Type the name of the News (NNTP) server: news.digitalmars.com.
  12. Click Finish
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