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Subject: Re: Where did "alt." come from
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Date: Tue, 4-Aug-87 01:40:02 EDT
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In article <1004@hoqax.UUCP> twb@hoqax.UUCP (BEATTIE) writes:

.. a nasty and uncalled for comment. -deleted.
>
> Until the original posting I never even heard of alt. groups.
> A newsgroup is either an official group or it isn't - there is no in
> between.

Well, Tom, you have been in the dark.  I am under the impression that
most of the backbone carries the alt group.  Rutgers does, ucb does,
MIT does, parts (if not all) of ATT.  I don't know about UUNET.  Anyone
for a Micky Mouse roll call? ;-)
-- 
Eliot Lear
Rutgers University Department of Mathematics
[lear@rutgers.edu]