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From: wjb@cogsci.cog.jhu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: Nomenclature
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Date: 26 Mar 91 21:39:55 GMT
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Andy Tanenbaum wrote:
> [stuff about the existence of certain alt.* groups]
>
>P.S. In case you missed all the symbolism here, what I am driving at is
>that if we must have two groups, then comp.os.minix and comp.os.minix.software
>would not be forbidden by network rules.

	Although I agree with you, you picked a poor example.  The alt.*
hierarchy admits to few if any rules at all.  It is for most purposes an
anarchy.  A better example might have been comp.ai and its various
subgroups...

				Bill Bogstad