Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Peter Pearson Newsgroups: sci.crypt Subject: Re: Hello, sci.crypt cryptonauts! What happened to this NG? Date: 21 Dec 2022 15:17:02 GMT Lines: 15 Message-ID: References: X-Trace: individual.net oatcsTWAZ6hew1wCpipM1w8CDoXaF5R6qIvRXeBqKOqnj04ksl Cancel-Lock: sha1:Y3RJONzu4n8cSUd/k16iRJA1K1A= User-Agent: slrn/1.0.3 (Linux) Xref: csiph.com sci.crypt:53580 On Wed, 21 Dec 2022 00:51:33 -0600, G.K. wrote: > I noticed that sci.crypt swiftly went 'dead' and for many months when I > have checked I have seen only fake spam. Is this group abandoned? Why > are the trolls spamming it? > > Are there any lurkers that even check here any more? Yep, still lurking. Curious why crypto-recovery scammers are pounding so hard on this newsgroup, which I would expect to be the least receptive to their claims. -- To email me, substitute nowhere->runbox, invalid->com.