Re: Ping Malke

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Date: Wed, 08 Dec 2004 13:01:42 -0800

Br0wnbear wrote:

> On Wed, 08 Dec 2004 08:49:01 -0800, Malke <malke@nospoonnotreally.com>
> wrote:
>
>>David H. Lipman wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Malke:
>>>
>>> I haven't gotten anything "sewn up". There are many experts that
>>> post
>>> there. While Zvi Netiv of Invircible may occasionally drop by here,
>>> there are MORE AV vendor representatives
>>> who "pop in" to alt.comp.virus and the sister group
>>> alt.comp.anti-virus such as Dave Perry of TrendMicro.
>>>
>>> So PLEASE hang out in a.c.v and a.c.a-v as well. There are a
>>> more worldy set uf posters there then in the MS News Groups.
>>>
>>OK, I've just subscribed to both. Just what I need, more newsgroups to
>>read! ;-) What distinguishes them from each other? So you'll see me
>>in a while. I always lurk a bit first. Thanks for the information - I
>>appreciate it.
>>
>>Malke
>
> Malke
>
> I don't think Dave has that much thread to sew those places up. And
> you are right you won't be able to keep up with the daily threads
> there.
> It hasn't changed much in the 8 years I have been following over
> there and I don't follow it as closely as I used to. They don't pick
> on Zvi as much as they used to (although he and Art seem to be at
> it.). And Raid seems to have disappeared, but he may have changed
> handles by now. There were lots of colourful characters and still are.
>
> When I started in alt.comp.virus it was more of a virus writers vs AV
> Writers world. The threads were informative but sometimes drifted to
> a lot of ego bashing which was always entertaining. There was a good
> breed of white hat and black hat in the earlier days also.
> If you really wanted to know what the virus writers were up to, that
> is where you went.
>
> alt.comp.anti-virus got started a couple of years ago to answer more
> generic questions on anti-virus products. Althought there seems to be
> alot of X-posting it is hard to distinguish between the two now.
>

Thanks, John. I asked because frankly I have darn little extra time and
I like to spend it wisely. I will check out the groups because I like
to continually learn things, but aside from the MS newsgroups, I also
read (with varying degrees of thoroughness) 7 other groups every day.
So if I add two more technical ones, they need to have a good
signal-to-noise ratio for me to stick with them. I'll be lurking.

Cheers,

Malke

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