Re: Proposing alt.security.engineering

Nuno Silva wrote:
> 
> 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.

No you're right, control messages were used by those that can do it, prolly nsp 
admins.