Re: Proposing alt.security.engineering

On 2026-01-02, William Stickers wrote:

> Nuno Silva wrote:
>> 
>> On 2026-01-02, William Stickers wrote:
>> 
[...]
>> > 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.

Then I probably confused or misremembered the means used to create these
groups, I thought control messages had been used too.

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Nuno Silva