Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!apple!sun-barr!newstop!texsun!rpp386!aubrey From: aubrey@rpp386.cactus.org (Aubrey McIntosh) Newsgroups: alt.sources.d Subject: Re: moderation of alt.sources vs. automated harangues Keywords: name change Message-ID: <17157@rpp386.cactus.org> Date: 17 Oct 89 16:05:24 GMT References: <2024@convex.UUCP> <1989Oct13.192835.1330@talos.uucp> <1989Oct14.012800.12049@rpi.edu> <15110@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> <29486@abbott.mips.COM> Reply-To: aubrey@rpp386.UUCP (Aubrey McIntosh) Organization: Big "D" Home for Wayward Hackers Lines: 13 In article <29486@abbott.mips.COM> dennis@mips.COM (Dennis Franklin) writes: >How 'bout a name change from alt.sources to something like alt.sources.only... > Hmm, the medium is the message? >Jus' a thought. In the case of ~my~ posting to alt.sources the proposed name would have worked. I recommend supporting the idea. -- Aubrey McIntosh Freelance using Modula-2 Real time, embedded, instruments. Austin, TX 78723 Enquiries welcome 1-(512)-452-1540 aubrey%rpp386.Cactus.org@cs.utexas.edu