Re: is this board alive?

Jeff G. wrote:

>>> "Jeff G."
>>>> Mike Easter wrote:

>>>>> There are both lurkers and posters around here I say.
>>>>
>>>> However, nobody posted for 12 days until eddie showed up.

> In contrast, the SpamCop Email System & Accounts Forum at
> http://forum.spamcop.net/forums/index.php?showforum=4 has had 772
> Topics (posts) and 4268 Replies in the past ~465 days since its first
> Topic on 25th January 2004, an average of 1.7 Topics/day and 9.2
> Replies/day.

That's partly because this is a stealth or ghost or hidden newsgroup,
hidden from public view so that you have to have a secret passkey to get
in.

There are no links to it anywhere, including the page that you can dig
down into to find the nntp groups.  The faq pages point only to the
forum;  the nntp pages don't include .help or .mail and there are
periodic 'forays' into the secret nntp groups to drag participants to
the webforum kicking and screaming whether they want to go or not.

http://www.spamcop.net/sitemap.shtml
Help
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Forums
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NNTP (usenet style) Newsgroups

http://www.spamcop.net/help.shtml#nntp
Newsgroups
  SpamCop (spamcop) General Discussion of spam and SpamCop.  NNTP  WebTV
  Geek talk (spamcop.geeks) Geeky issues not related to spam or SpamCop.
NNTP  WebTV
  Social room (spamcop.social) Anything that doesn't fit in the other
groups.  NNTP  WebTV
  Spam lab (spamcop.spam) Posting and discussion of specific spam -
often contains de-obfuscation 'workshops'.  NNTP  WebTV




-- 
Mike Easter
kibitzer, not SC admin