Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!garfield!chris2
From: chris2@garfield.MUN.EDU (Chris Paulse)
Newsgroups: news.groups
Subject: Call  for Discussion: alt.cobol
Message-ID: <5301@garfield.MUN.EDU>
Date: 25 Nov 89 00:42:16 GMT
Organization: CS Dept., Memorial U. of Newfoundland, St. John's
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I'm overwhelmed by the volume of this group, but this seems an
administrative necessity.  I don't know anything about cobol, but
I see lots of jobs for Cobol programmers in misc.jobs.offered
(especially in Florida, which is my favorite place).  I also know
that there is no such comp.lang.cobol group.

I don't want to delay society by proposing comp.lang.cobol, but
rather get someone's attention by letting them see `new newsgroup
alt.cobol add? [y,n]' the next time they login.  This newsgroup will
contain _absolute_ weirdness if ever created.  Do I have anyone yet?

microsoft has cobol, mvs has cobol, vms has cobol, rt-11 has cobol,
!!alt!! needs cobol.