Re: is this board alive?

On 2005-05-06 22:52:15 +0300, "Mike Easter" <[email protected]> said:

> 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
> 
> 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

I kinda understand why its hidden and I hope its stays that way.

At forums, Wazoo  got great control, countermeasures etc but its a real 
pain to get rid of lamers on a NNTP server. Needs lots of time I mean.

My only need of help is that 7650 bugging window every time I check my 
IMAP mail (root cert. not installed) and I kinda figured its nothing I 
can do about it.

Spoke some Symbian vendors, they told me why :) Can tell you as simple 
as.. Equifax needs to pay huge money to Symbian and become trusted 
vendor. Hire some Symbian coders knowing the .sis structure, submit the 
stuff to Nokia for review (Euros floating btw) and user will install 
that Sis file if he/she cares.

So, I learned to live with that nag :) In fact, waiting for "Eudora2Go" 
to ship for general mobiles. e.g. Europe etc.

Ilgaz Ocal