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Path: ...!news.nobody.at!2.eu.feeder.erje.net!feeder.erje.net!feeds.news.ox.ac.uk!news.ox.ac.uk!nntp-feed.chiark.greenend.org.uk!ewrotcd!.POSTED.chiark.greenend.org.uk!not-for-mail From: Theo <theom+news@chiark.greenend.org.uk> Newsgroups: comp.misc Subject: Re: Need help with picking newsgroup Date: 12 Aug 2024 16:30:33 +0100 (BST) Organization: University of Cambridge, England Message-ID: <1al*MQORz@news.chiark.greenend.org.uk> References: <slrnvbfvm7.8l9.apple.universe@freight.zombinet> <SSL-20240811113300@ram.dialup.fu-berlin.de> Injection-Info: chiark.greenend.org.uk; posting-host="chiark.greenend.org.uk:93.93.131.173"; logging-data="13552"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@chiark.greenend.org.uk" User-Agent: tin/1.8.3-20070201 ("Scotasay") (UNIX) (Linux/5.10.0-28-amd64 (x86_64)) Originator: theom@chiark.greenend.org.uk ([93.93.131.173]) Bytes: 2884 Lines: 42 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