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From: dave@sea375.UUCP (David A. Wilson)
Newsgroups: news.misc,comp.sources.d
Subject: why alt.sources?
Message-ID: <171@sea375.UUCP>
Date: 15 Jan 88 02:16:42 GMT
Organization: At Home in Seattle, WA
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I recently noticed several references to source sent out in alt.sources.
Some of the references were bug fixes in comp.bugs. I had been looking
for a few of the programs mentioned for quite a while wondering why I hadn't
seen more recent versions distributed. I was very disappointed to find
out that I may have missed a lot of program source because it was sent
out in the alt subnet. I think subnets are fine for special interest groups
and non-computer oriented discussions, but why put computer source on
a limited distribution net like alt? I thought comp.sources.misc was
going to be the unmoderated sources newgroup. Can anyone enlighten me
as to why this split occurred?

Is Usenet falling to pieces?...


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	David A. Wilson
	uw-beaver!tikal!slab!sea375!dave