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denton-scratch on July 25, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: Trying to find some life on the Usenet (2020)

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.

gadders on July 25, 2023 [–]

It was the same method as that, but the group was alt.hackers I think.

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

wizofaus on July 26, 2023 | [–]

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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