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Does anyone monitor this newsgroup?

Been lurking here quite a while and seen absolutely zero traffic...

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Skorpion [skorpion at suespammers dot org]
"Don't attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by
stupidity."

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In article <10m6bkq6kp7qh2b@corp.supernews.com>, Skorpion wrote:
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Most people really don't give a damn about signing questios, especially
when posting with bogus addresses.

>Does anyone monitor this newsgroup?

There are some who are subscribed to it.  Your article received the
serial number 2151 on the giganews server, so _somebody_ has been
posting here,

>Been lurking here quite a while and seen absolutely zero traffic...

The news group was created in the late 1990s, by the marketeers at Red
Hat Linux back when that was a going concern - as one of a series of 14
different groups.

[compton ~]$ grep '^redhat' .newsrc | column
redhat.announce                 redhat.kernel.general
redhat.config                   redhat.networking.general
redhat.control                  redhat.rpm.general
redhat.general                  redhat.security.general
redhat.hardware.arch.alpha      redhat.servers.general
redhat.hardware.arch.intel      redhat.test
redhat.hardware.arch.sparc      redhat.x.general
[compton ~]$

Not that many news servers picked up the groups, so they're next to
useless. For example, during it's entire lifetime, 'redhat.announce'
has had just _two_ article posted, one of which was (I think) the
original announcement of the creation of the groups. RH6.2 (3/2000)
was the last distribution to support the Sparc, and RH7.0 (1/2001)
was the last distribution to support the Alpha. Notice there are no
groups for 'ia64' which has been supported since RH7.1 (4/2001). I
suspect I've seen more test postings in the groups than anything else.

If you're looking for security stuff, grab a copy of "List of Big Eight
Newsgroups" that is posted to news.announce.newgroups, news.groups, and
news.lists.misc on the 15th of every month.  I"d suggest monitoring
comp.security.unix and comp.os.linux.security - both of which are
relatively active.  There are some other groups in the alt.* hiarcy,
but these are not carried on all news servers. The same is true for the
list.redhat.* groups which started out as mirrors of Red Hat mailing
lists - nearly all of which are now dead.

Another trick is to kick your news reader into grabbing a list of all the
groups that your server (supernews) carries. Last I checked, it was
something like 30,000 groups.

Old guy

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Moe Trin regaled us with the following:
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> The news group was created in the late 1990s, by the marketeers at Red
> Hat Linux back when that was a going concern - as one of a series of 14
> different groups.
>
> [compton ~]$ grep '^redhat' .newsrc | column
> redhat.announce                 redhat.kernel.general
> redhat.config                   redhat.networking.general
> redhat.control                  redhat.rpm.general
> redhat.general                  redhat.security.general
> redhat.hardware.arch.alpha      redhat.servers.general
> redhat.hardware.arch.intel      redhat.test
> redhat.hardware.arch.sparc      redhat.x.general
> [compton ~]$
>
> Not that many news servers picked up the groups, so they're next to
> useless. For example, during it's entire lifetime, 'redhat.announce'
> has had just _two_ article posted, one of which was (I think) the
> original announcement of the creation of the groups. RH6.2 (3/2000)
> was the last distribution to support the Sparc, and RH7.0 (1/2001)
> was the last distribution to support the Alpha. Notice there are no
> groups for 'ia64' which has been supported since RH7.1 (4/2001). I
> suspect I've seen more test postings in the groups than anything else.
>

Thanks for the info...

I am actually subscribed to all the security groups (in English) that my
newserver provides...

I just wondered what had happened to/within this particular group. I was
rather surprised to find that redhat folks weren't using this group; now I
understand...

All things considered, no reason to remain subscribed, I guess...

BTW, the fact that I sign all messages generated on my computer is an
ongoing semi-political effort on my part to promote the use of
signing/encryption in all communications. I personally believe that if all
persons would embrace secured communciations that we would be better off.
As I'm certain you know, signing this document insures to anyone who cares
at any time in the future that what they are reading is what I actually
wrote.
Anyone who cares knows where they can find my public key.

I went to the store the other day to buy a bolt for our front door,
for as I told the storekeeper, the governor was coming here. "Aye,"
said he, "and the Legislature too."  "Then I will take two bolts,"
said I.  He said that there had been a steady demand for bolts and
locks of late, for our protectors were coming. -- Henry David Thoreau


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"Don't attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by
stupidity."

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