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From: bill@twwells.com (T. William Wells)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d
Subject: Re: Perl 3.0 beta available
Message-ID: <1989Sep15.202533.4988@twwells.com>
Date: 15 Sep 89 20:25:33 GMT
References: <5948@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV> <3100002@nixpbe> <1989Sep15.011030.1660@NCoast.ORG>
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In article <1989Sep15.011030.1660@NCoast.ORG> allbery@ncoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery) writes:
: -> 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.

That's pretty much what happens with alt.sources. People post betas
there quite frequently. But I'd go along with a mainstream group.

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