-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- das@razor.engr.sgi.com (Anil Das) writes:

On Feb 11, 2:42pm, Alan Bostick wrote:

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new alt.* newsgroups are better received if they don't have top-level names. Using existing top-level hierarchies is better (e.g. alt.security.cypherpunks or alt.privacy.cypherpunks).

I agree that alt.privacy.cypherpunks is the best bet, if alt.group is the route we go.

This has a number of frige benifits, too. It's lower down in the alphabetical list, so luser AOL-type people and auto-spam bots are less likely to reach alt.p* or alt.s* than alt.c*. Also, it seperates it from alt.cyberpunk and associated groups, thus maybe minimizing innappropriate x-posts. The hybrid mailing list/newsgroup system seems to me to be an excellent setup. It is resilliant to the moderation woes that a mailing list is vulernable to, and is also resistant to ISPs who don't carry alt groups. It also provides a set of mail-news gateways for people who wish to post anonymously to the newsgroup, whaile at the same time being resistant to commercial spam abuse (why use a mail-news to spam if it just goes to 1 newsgroup?). Finally, a newsgroup makes it easy to spread the gospel to the unwashed masses. Tim May's rants/essays would probably make excellent usenet memes, and having more usenet people crypto-aware can only help advance the causes of liberty and privacy. I hereby volunteer to do my best to handle all the newbie questions. Jer "standing on top of the world/ never knew how you never could/ never knew why you never could live/ innocent life that everyone did" -Wormhole -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQB1AwUBMwEULskz/YzIV3P5AQGgNQMAgPaMmS7Wcb4kT6Mc9ak3dLZ9GjdvZmtU ZDdkLhnnJ+3IFD1RWzo7gahEXDrJtFQ3QfWhcjC/0V9EMYWBr/ITa2esNXPiuCWW KyWYblVSCeYGdrzd0MK8MJXIjX5hWZ/A =emtl -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----