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Re:I've skimmed 66520 newsgroups trying to find some life on... by gadders on Tuesday July 25, 2023 @07:01AM (#36860543)
>>I think that one good thing from these services was the relatively high barrier of entry.

Talking of high barrier to entry, does anyone ever remember that hackers group that said you needed to hack something in your newsreader to make it not read-only so you could post?

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Re:I've skimmed 66520 newsgroups trying to find some life on... by denton-scratch on Tuesday July 25, 2023 @07:24AM (#36860715)
Would that be alt.sysadmin.recovery? Your post had to have an "Approved:" header. You could say "Approved: yes", "Approved: no" or "Approved: xyzzy" - it didn't matter.

I expect there were other groups that needed an Approved: header to post.

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Re:I've skimmed 66520 newsgroups trying to find some life on... by gadders on Tuesday July 25, 2023 @02:31PM (#36867139)
It was the same method as that, but the group was alt.hackers I think.

https://www.samiam.org/alt.hackers.html

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Re:I've skimmed 66520 newsgroups trying to find some life on... by wizofaus on Wednesday July 26, 2023 @06:32AM (#36875410)
Peak of 70 postings a month? Surely that'd be the threshold for "largely abandoned" for almost any forum these days...
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