Garth Wallace wrote:
> Phillip M. Jones, C.E.T. wrote:
>
>> The reason for all the spam you saw is that Mozilla.Org refuses to move
>> there news groups to a secure server. like the Netscape Newsgroups are.
>>
>> I follow several groups on secnews.netscape.com and we might see a piece
>> of spam once every year and a half.
>>
>> Yet there is spam on any of the Mozilla groups at least daily. And
>> appears almost on a weekly schedule.
>>
>> There are certain pieces of Spam that I can almost guarantee the day it
>> will show up on the Mozilla groups. And in some case rotates daily
>> between the Mozilla groups i follow. general, .java, .mac, .wishlist.
>
>
> IIRC the mozilla groups are going to be moved to a new (probably secure)
> server, most likely at the same time as the renaming of the hierarchy.
> Instead of netscape.public.mozilla.*, it'll be just mozilla.* The full
> renaming plan can be found here: http://www.mozilla.org.uk/newsgroups.txt
>
Do we have an ETA on this? I know just about everything is a moving
target and the move requires a lot of work to minimize transition
problems and not make mistakes in the process that would require more
renaming/moving in the future, but this will solve many problems with
this list (reduce spam, people thinking this is a Netscape group), and
many people have been asking about this and waiting for this for a while.
--
Alex <:3)~~
http://www.gerbilbox.com/newzilla/
