An immodest proposal

I want to invite people who are enamaphiles to colonize (!) a Usenet news group that used to be a forum for enema lovers, and has degenerated into an all-spam ng.

It's called alt.sex.enemas.

In at least one (and I think, several) other adult topic newsgroup, when spammers became too big a fraction of the posting traffic, the 'legit' posters adopted a strategy to facilitate filtering out everything else but "us", by starting the subject line of every thread with a string of capital Z's. That happens by coincidence to be the initial of Zity.biz, but since there's already a 'tradition' in Usenet, it shouldn't be hard for posters and readers to recognize what it's about.

What I'm proposing is that if folks are interested in an ADDITIONAL (not substitute) forum for enema talk (and perhaps personals) they might post in alt.sex.enemas, either replying to or starting threads where the subject line begins with ZZZZZZZZ (8 Z's).

I've posted a message there with the same subject line I use here (and didn't remember to use the ZZZZZZZZ prefix I'm advocating; maybe I'll repost it that way.) In that message I gave the .url to this forum, just in case one or two stragglers who aren't spammers see it and come join us at Z.b.

What's the advantage, you ask? (I have very good hearing.) It's another channel of communication, one that has a more interactive feel about it, some feel, than the web, but aside from that there's a demographic that has used Usenet for years and wouldn't as easily cross over to web forums, so it's an opportunity to increase cross-participation in both directions.

I hope some of you will join me in seeing if that newsgroup can be taken back for its original intended use, a club house for enema lovers.

Good luck with any attempts to revitalize such websites. Most have been abandoned to SPAMMERS, due to the diappearance of owner/moderators. It can be really difficult to do things without an owner, or active mods.

Well first of all, it isn't a web site. Usenet's another part of the internet, that was thriving a long time before the web existed. And it doesn't work like a web site, you don't (necessarily) access it with a web browser, although Giggle, in a way that reminds me of what AOHell used to do with newsgroups, provides its own web portal to Usenet, and its users tend to think they're using a proprietary Giggle service when they post to the newsgroups.

The same client software that you use to download e-mail to your h/d, like Outlook Express or Thunderbird or any number of others, also in most cases optionally downloads newsgroup postings, to be read in a 'news reader'. Just the way you can use e-mail filters to delete all the BIGGER PENIS spam e-mails without seeing them, newsgroups traffic can be filtered so it's invisible unless a post's subject line has the prefix "ZZZZZZZZ" in this case. A reader not filtering will still see a newsgroup populated almost entirely by spammers, while one using the appropriate filter will see only the postings with that prefix. That makes the spammers irrelevant, not even annoying. Since nearly 100% of spammers don't read the newsgroups they spam, it's rare for them to catch on to a sub-culture's use of this sort of recognition signal, and use it themselves to APPEAR not to be spam.