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From: spaf@arthur.cs.purdue.edu (Gene Spafford)
Newsgroups: news.lists,news.groups,news.announce.newusers
Subject: Changes to Alternative Newsgroup Hierarchies
Message-ID: <2189@arthur.cs.purdue.edu>
Date: Mon, 2-Nov-87 16:16:02 EST
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Posted: Mon Nov  2 16:16:02 1987
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*** old/altgroups.n	Thu Oct  1 08:35:53 1987
--- src/altgroups.n	Wed Oct 21 14:30:22 1987
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  Original-from: hoptoad!gnu (John Gilmore) and spaf@purdue.edu (Gene Spafford)
! [Most recent change: 23 September 1987 by spaf@purdue.edu (Gene Spafford)]
  
--- 5,7 ----
  Original-from: hoptoad!gnu (John Gilmore) and spaf@purdue.edu (Gene Spafford)
! [Most recent change: 21 October 1987 by spaf@purdue.edu (Gene Spafford)]
  
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  are not interested in these groups, often including the backbone,
! although some backbone sites do carry them.  There are currently three
! main groups and two administrative:
  
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  are not interested in these groups, often including the backbone,
! although some backbone sites do carry them.  Here is a recent list
! of the 'alt" newsgroups:
  
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  originating from BIONET-20.ARPA and carried on a limited number of
! machines including rutgers, ukma, and one of the machines at UCSD.
  Contact Rob Liebschutz <usenet@presto.ig.com> for more details.  The
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  originating from BIONET-20.ARPA and carried on a limited number of
! machines including rutgers, ukma, and all of the machines at UCSD.
  Contact Rob Liebschutz <usenet@presto.ig.com> for more details.  The
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  groups devoted to users of the AT&T Unix-PC.  These groups were
! originally exchanged by academic sites with large numbers of AT&T PCs,
! but other sites have joined this distribution.  To get the newsgroups,
! you need to contact a site already getting them; ihnp4, gatech, psuvax1
! and ukma all get these groups and the admins there may be willing to
! help find a feed should you desire (and ask nicely); uunet also carries
! these groups. The unix-pc groups circulated include:
  
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  groups devoted to users of the AT&T Unix-PC.  These groups were
! originated as a mailing list started by three owners of AT&T Unix PCs:
! Gary Smith, David Dalton and Kathy Vincent.  As the list expanded, it
! turned into a newsgroup hierarchy, and more and more sites began to
! carry the groups; hundreds of sites now carry these groups.  To recieve
! them, you need to contact a site already getting them; ihnp4, gatech,
! psuvax1 and ukma are well-known sites getting these groups and the
! admins there may be willing to help find a feed should you desire (and
! ask nicely); uunet also carries these groups. The unix-pc groups
! circulated include:
  
-- 
Gene Spafford
Dept. of Computer Sciences, Purdue University, W. Lafayette IN 47907-2004
Internet:  spaf@cs.purdue.edu	uucp:	...!{decwrl,gatech,ucbvax}!purdue!spaf