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From: trier@cwlim.CWRU.EDU (Stephen C. Trier)
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Subject: Re: Difference between newsgroups
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Perhaps it would be better to say that alt.msdos.programmer came before
all of the other programming-specific PC and MS-DOS groups, as it was
created (to the best of my knowledge) before comp.sys.ibm.pc.programmer.

It's not dead yet.  So far, alt.msdos.programmer has been a nice quiet
area to discuss very technical details of MS-DOS with an unusually noise
level.  In fact, the most noise we usually get is the "time to rmgroup
it" messages!  (This isn't a flame about it; after all, I'm participating
in the noise this time!)

Let alt.msdos.programmer be for now.  I want to see how well the new PC
groups behave before I give up on this group.  If all goes well there, 
alt.msdos.programmer will just quietly fade away.  If it doesn't, the
a.m.p gang will still have their little haven of DOS hacking.

-- 
Stephen Trier                              Case Western Reserve University
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