-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- On Thu, 26 Sep 1996, Robert Hettinga wrote:
I do know that there was an alt.anonymous.messages, or some such. Haven't looked at it lately, but I don't remember too much traffic on it...
It is still active. However, there are many people who do not receive the alt.* groups and those who do may only receive newsgroups "approved" by the news admin. It is much more difficult to restrict distribution of newsgroups carried by most major news feeds. Also, some NNTP servers may expire alt groups faster than the other hierarchies which is very undesirable for message pools. Mark - -- PGP encrypted mail prefered. Key fingerprint = d61734f2800486ae6f79bfeb70f95348 http://www.voicenet.com/~markm/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3 Charset: noconv iQEVAwUBMksV/CzIPc7jvyFpAQG8uAgAh0dx5o2/Ge4Myia62vUx63ENAClZG7vl pqxTDm61o9sR5aBR2uk11DqVqFVEbQQxAWzYpXd5R4OFvFKraM5OQkmJ96QRT5t6 TPaFIOI79CE0gLJ9i9/SO0ibHlsIe2/5m0/E1TpjidEYa1prVP4zSY7GmAksA5BY +tNPDvYih8eLz9P55Uwf2IorDEYAth/HMR/GcRIIrISiAGTuP67v5Mz8rSaC5CWJ XwUYqOsBatr5sLtWTl6kDuARa0dBA7giQ018N5oPS/nqJ3Ambn3MO47ff7p4jzFS RDglfGlewF/9S7kJ5R6QXTWzhxluiP+VxO6zoENpnpMV1u7ZHpFkvQ== =KYcM -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----