Re: is this board alive?

"Mike Easter" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
>
> 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.

Take a (fresh) look at http://forum.spamcop.net/forums/
I may change it around a bit more, but ...???

It's been over a year since JT made his declaration, so
not sure why there's all the aggravation.  For the
'average' user, your described "secret nntp groups"
should now be visible (even to the point of confusing
some folks over which group does what ...)