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From: kjones@talos.UUCP (Kyle Jones)
Newsgroups: alt.sources.d
Subject: Re: PLEASE POST ALL DISCUSSION TO alt.sources.d (note the "d")
Summary: not bloody likely
Message-ID: <590@talos.UUCP>
Date: 8 Jul 89 19:07:54 GMT
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In article <570@uncle.UUCP> jbm@uncle.UUCP (John B. Milton) writes:
 > All this discussion is very important, but please take pity on us
 > poor archivers out here. This is a real pain in the ass to sift
 > through! There was a group created called "alt.sources.d", just for
 > this sort of thing.  If you are a site administrator, please try to
 > deflect this stuff. If you are a poster, please deflect your replies.

And so we come full circle.  Back in the days of the Backbone Cabal, an effort
was made to convince people to keep non-source postings out of the source
groups.  It failed miserably.  That's why comp.sources.misc is moderated
today.

So here we have alt.sources and alt.sources.d, just like the comp.sources.misc
and comp.sources.d of old.  Will the non-source postings in alt.sources stop
just because alt.sources.d now exists?  Ha, ha.  We'll see...