To help make this website a safer place for visitors and members we have now also installed the Project Honeypot http:BL (Black List) module. The module checks the IP address of every visitor against the black list maintained by Project Honeypot in real time and, depending on the reputation of that IP address, automatically BLOCKS the IP address from further visits to this site or issues a 'Greylisting' challenge to the visitor.

Since http:BL was enabled less than 24 hours ago, Project Honeypot has already

During an upgrade of the Event module Thursday afternoon all event DATES WERE LOST...

Members who posted an Event are requested to immediately EDIT their event posts to update event dates and times.

We apologise for any inconvenience.

What got you interested in running a site?

Well, as the domain name altnews.com.au suggests, back in 1996, I fully intended to build an 'Alternative' news site publishing the important stuff that should have made it to the mainstream media. The web site slogan at the time was: "Publishing collective for the bio-economic region around Cairns, tropical north Queensland, Australia". This was supposed to be a part-time after hours interest adjunct to my fledgling web hosting business.

This Altnews site, forums.altnews now has 'Groups' similar to Yahoo Groups and Google Groups...

Each group can have members, and maintains a group home page where members can post into. Posts may be placed into multiple groups (i.e. cross-posting) and individual posts may be shared with non-members or not. Membership to groups may be open, closed, moderated, or invitation only. Add-on modules are available for group image galleries, group calendars, group vocabulary, group stores, etc.