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From: allbery@NCoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d
Subject: Re: Perl 3.0 beta available
Message-ID: <1989Sep15.011030.1660@NCoast.ORG>
Date: 15 Sep 89 01:10:30 GMT
References: <5948@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV> <3100002@nixpbe>
Reply-To: allbery@ncoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery)
Followup-To: comp.sources.d
Organization: North Coast Public Access UN*X, Cleveland, OH
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As quoted from <3100002@nixpbe> by kebsch@nixpbe.uucp:
+---------------
| > Perl 3.0 beta is now available for testing.  You can get it via anonymous
| > ...
| > If interest warrants I'll post it to alt.sources.
| > ..
| > lwall@jpl-devvax.jpl.nasa.gov
| 
| Here my vote for posting it in comp.sources.unix, because I think,
| there are more people getting this group than alt.sources?????????
+---------------

I think not.  Larry probably doesn't want the beta copy enshrined in archives
all over the net, since it will (hopefully) soon be superseded by the *real*
3.0.  For this reason, both comp.sources.unix and c.s.misc are out of the
running.  About all that's left is comp.sources.misc.

-> Suggestion:  how about "comp.sources.beta", a (possibly moderated)
newsgroup operating along the same lines as c.s.misc, but with only temporary
archiving.  When the release version comes out (presumably in .misc or .unix),
the beta archive copies are flushed and possibly replaces with a pointer to
the released version.

++Brandon
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