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From: dhosek@jarthur.Claremont.EDU (D.A. Hosek)
Newsgroups: news.groups
Subject: Re: newsgroup for TeX and LaTeX
Message-ID: <3601@jarthur.Claremont.EDU>
Date: 14 Dec 89 20:38:29 GMT
References: <14650@eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU> <865.25877f44@dayton.saic.com>
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In article <865.25877f44@dayton.saic.com> fac2@dayton.saic.com (Earle Ake) writes:
>In article <14650@eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU>, kwon@sybil.cs.buffalo.edu (Thomas Kwon) writes:
>> I was wondering if anyone is interested in creating a newsgroup called
>> "TeX.questions" or something along that line.

>	I am interested in it.  Might also be a place to share some style
>files that people have written.  Go for it!

Yes, but (1) there exist better means of disseminating style files (in 
particular, there are parallel archives at Clarkson, HMC, Aston University
(UK), on PC floppies from Jon Radel and a few other sources. Submitting 
style files and macros there would be a better way to share information.

Also, be aware that only a tiny fraction of the TeX community ever even
sees news. A large number of DVI driver questions, for example, have gone
unanswered because I didn't start reading news until fairly recently. Leslie
Lamport, who wrote LaTeX, reads TeXhax. He does not get news. The same can
be said of many other important TeX people.

-dh
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