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From: tneff@bfmny0.UU.NET (Tom Neff)
Newsgroups: alt.sources.d
Subject: Re: moderation of alt.sources vs. automated harangues
Message-ID: <14766@bfmny0.UU.NET>
Date: 18 Oct 89 17:25:53 GMT
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No need for an unmoderated source group??!  Thus do we trash the last
remaining pockets of original net.spirit.  Now that the moderated source
colossi are reduced to grinding out 23-part graphics packages for Turbo
C after weeks or months of delay, alt.sources is all we have left for
short, fun, timely code sharing.  Sure, I junk 90% of the stuff that
comes through and so should You, Dear Reader; but the key is that it'll
be a different 90% for everyone.  Sure, it's a problem that net.ignorami
clutter the group with discussion, but education -- not abolition -- is
the answer.  A monthly WELCOME TO ALT.SOURCES posting with a 30-day
expire would be welcome; it could remind folks to put discussion in .d
while it tells how to find 'shar' and so forth.

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