Re: Accessing Secnews

[Blinky the Shark <no.spam@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Moz Champion (Dan) wrote:
> Blinky the Shark wrote:

>> Jay, I'm probably just burning up my Stupid Question For The Month at a 
>> very early date, but what's the advantage to the user of using the 
>> secnews server?
 >
> Why use secnews?
> 
> 
> There is little spam on secnews, tho there isnt much on mozilla.org, 
> there is some
> 
> Secnews is not available to Google Groups
> 
> The 'monitoring' on secnews, at least for the help groups, is done 
> somewhat differently than the monitoring that occurs on mozilla. We 
> also, at least for the multimedia group, provide a 'chat type' 
> atmosphere to assist in the attraction of 'multimedia artistic types'.
> 
> On Secnews, there is no problem or concern with posting binary images.
> You can use netscape.test.multimedia for screen shots if need be, as 
> well as multimedia 'help' from other users.
> 
> On Secnews, OT traffic is not shuffled off to another newsgroup, we 
> request that it be marked OT in the subject, but besides that, it stays 
> in the group it originated in.
> 
> Where traffic warrents it, there are seperate groups for different OSes 
> on Secnews. Again, not a major deal, but nice regardless.

Thanks, Dan.


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