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From: allbery@NCoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery)
Newsgroups: alt.config,alt.sources.d
Subject: Re: moderation of alt.sources vs. automated harangues
Message-ID: <1989Nov4.172417.25968@NCoast.ORG>
Date: 4 Nov 89 17:24:17 GMT
References: <2645@pur-phy> <1989Oct15.003835.9012@rpi.edu> <17149@rpp386.cactus.org> <1989Oct17.005207.16223@rpi.edu> <17160@rpp386.cactus.org> <1989Oct23.065310.25620@rpi.edu> <1989Nov2.033731.14704@sq.sq.com>
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Quoth lee@sq.com (Liam R. E. Quin) in <1989Nov2.033731.14704@sq.sq.com>:
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| On the other hand, vaster than empires, the mighty Usenet slowly turns, and
| I would expect that changing the name of sources groups would irritate
| everyone who archived them.
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Which makes alt.sources a much better testing ground than comp.sources.* would
be.  Or maybe we should create alt.source-code and let it run concurrently
with alt.sources, and observe the results.  If it works well, it can be
proposed for the mainstream Usenet.

++Brandon
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