Re: Proposing alt.security.engineering

Nuno Silva wrote:
> 
> 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.

I think those alt* groups were prolly made by NSP admins at the request of 
users following news.mozilla.org shutting down.