Re: Need help with picking newsgroup

Stefan Ram <ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de> wrote:

Eric Pozharski <apple.universe@posteo.net> wrote or quoted:

Disclaimer:  I don't have any hope.  But let's give USENET a chance.

 
  I think the original idea was to ask such questions in
  "news.newusers.questions".
 
  Theoretically, the question might be on topic in
  comp.protocols.tcp-ip.
 
  But SSL usually is discussed in USENET within the group of
  a specific product that happens to use SSL, such as an application
  program, a programming language, or an operating system.

Yes, I think it really depends on what part of SSL/TLS you're interested in.  If
it's setting up a website then the appropriate group for your OS might have
people with experience of setting up Apache/nginx/IIS/...  If it's the
crypto then sci.crypt (which suffers from low SNR, but maybe someone
sensible will reply).  If it's the networking side of things then
comp.protocols... (don't read any of those groups so not sure which are
active).

But a lot of groups are low traffic, so I might favour one with traffic over
one with a laser focus on your particular question.  eg you might have more
luck in a Linux newsgroup than a protocols newsgroup - people who use Linux
and happen to have done things with SSL might read the Linux group where
they don't read the protocols group.  Even if the question is not strictly
about Linux (eg how to set up nginx on Mac will be mostly similar to
nginx on Linux and a lot of knowledge will transfer)

  For example, it seems that in the past SSL was mentioned in

[snip]

Indeed...  a lot of groups are named for decades past, and it's possible the
topic has shifted a bit (eg comp.sys.acorn.* discusses current products for
platforms which descend from Acorn's, even though Acorn have been gone for
25 years).

Worth searching group postings rather than group names - not sure what the
best post-Google Groups option for that is.

Theo