Re: Proposing alt.security.engineering

On 2026-01-02, William Stickers wrote:

> Keith wrote:
>> 
>> Keith <[email protected]> posted:
>> 
>> > 
>> > William Stickers <[email protected]> posted:
>> > 
>> > > Keith wrote:
>> > > > 
>> > > > first of all i am an amateur (that doesn't mean i'm
>> > > > incompetent quiz me if you
>> > > > want), but i feel like security engineering as a field should
>> > > > have a sub-hierarchy
>> > > > 
>> > > > again i have no control group perms, so would be really cool if someone could
>> > > > create this :D
>> > > 
>> > > <https://www.reddit.com/r/securityengineering/>
>> > 
>> > why can't we have both spaces?
>> 
>> i'm just going to set this shit up myself thats the best thing about this platform
>> no one can censor you because you can just run everything independently, no wonder
>> it has been consistently active for like 50+ years
>
> I don't think you quite get it. The reason there are not half a dozen 
> usenetters on here explaining the pros and cons of creating this group is 
> because they have moved on. Mostly everyone has, even the spammers have given 
> up. You've missed the party.
> Good luck with sending the newgroup cmsg. I don't know of any NSPs that allow 
> them anymore.

Has this changed significantly in the past couple years or so?

Just a few years ago at least three alt.* groups were created after
Giganews and Mozilla pulled the plug on news.mozilla.org.

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Nuno Silva