Re: Fediverse newsgroup

William Stickers <[email protected]> Sat, 20 Dec 2025 11:08:04 -0000
Newsgroups alt.config
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Peter J Ross wrote:
> 
> On 2024-10-11, Adam H. Kerman <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> > Schlomo Goldberg <[email protected]> wrote:
> >>Adam H. Kerman <[email protected]> writes:
> >
> >>>Although now that I look, comp.infosystems.* is a thing, but
> >>>alt.comp.infosystems.* is not. Proposed alt.* groups shouldn't be named
> >>>to skip a hierarchy level.
> >
> >>Is such rule written somewhere?
> >
> > There it is, written.
> 
> I agree with the rule as written, which makes it unanimous among all
> surviving alt.configgers who have any plausible claim to be taken
> seriously. And the threshhold for being taken seriously here is loooow!
> 
> Any newsgroup you newgroup will be useless at best, harmful at worst.
> Why not enjoy participating in existing newsgroups instead?

Funny. 
Did you happen to notice the result of the recent  UK Usenet Committee 
Election? Or this <https://individual.net/>?
Most sane usenetters have fucked off, leaving only a few diehard participants 
and a shit load of nutters that have no where else to go.