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From: spaf@cs.purdue.EDU (Gene Spafford)
Newsgroups: news.lists,news.groups,news.announce.newusers
Subject: Changes to Alternative Newsgroup Hierarchies
Summary: describes the following alternate hierarchies: alt, bionet, biz,
    gnu, inet/ddn, pubnet, unix-pc
Message-ID: <4544@medusa.cs.purdue.edu>
Date: 27 Jul 88 00:57:22 GMT
Expires: 17 Aug 88 00:57:21 GMT
Organization: Dept. of Computer Sciences, Purdue Univ.
Lines: 82
Approved: spaf@cs.purdue.EDU
Supersedes: <4254@medusa.cs.purdue.edu>

This posting contains a listing of differences between the version of 
the article (referenced in the "Subject:" line) just posted to this
group, and the version posted a few weeks ago.  New users may ignore
this posting -- it is intended to enable experienced users
to track changes to the regularly posted Usenet documents.

*** old/altgroups.n	Wed Jun  1 01:29:02 1988
--- src/altgroups.n	Tue Jul 26 17:02:59 1988
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*** 2,3
  Expires: 21days
  Approved: spaf@purdue.EDU

--- 2,5 -----
  Expires: 21days
+ Summary: describes the following alternate hierarchies: alt, bionet, biz,
+     gnu, inet/ddn, pubnet, unix-pc
  Approved: spaf@purdue.EDU
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*** 5,7
  Original-from: hoptoad!gnu (John Gilmore) and spaf@purdue.edu (Gene Spafford)
! [Most recent change: 19 May 1988 by spaf@cs.purdue.edu (Gene Spafford)]
  

--- 7,9 -----
  Original-from: hoptoad!gnu (John Gilmore) and spaf@purdue.edu (Gene Spafford)
! [Most recent change: 26 July 1988 by spaf@cs.purdue.edu (Gene Spafford)]
  
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*** 44,47
  by a collection of sites that choose to carry them.  Many Usenet sites
! 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:

--- 46,48 -----
  by a collection of sites that choose to carry them.  Many Usenet sites
! are not interested in these groups.  Here is a recent list
  of the 'alt" newsgroups:
***************
*** 56,57
  alt.individualism	??
  alt.rock-n-roll		Counterpart to alt.sex and alt.drugs....

--- 57,59 -----
  alt.individualism	??
+ alt.recovery		??
  alt.rock-n-roll		Counterpart to alt.sex and alt.drugs....
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*** 193,216
  unix-pc.test 		Test group.
- 
- usrgroup
- --------
- The usrgroup hierarchy is sponsored by /usr/group and consists of groups
- devoted to discussion of topics relating to POSIX/Unix.  uunet carries
- these groups, as do rutgers, mit-eddie and ukma.
- 
- usrgroup.distfile       Distributed File System extensions.
- usrgroup.graphics       Graphics/windows extensions.
- usrgroup.internat       Internationalization extensions.
- usrgroup.netinter       Network Interface extensions.
- usrgroup.perfmeas       Performance Measurements.
- usrgroup.realtime       Realtime extensions.
- usrgroup.security       Security extensions.
- usrgroup.supercom       Supercomputing extensions.
- usrgroup.technical      General /usr/group Technical Committee discussions.
- 
- Further info on the efforts of /usr/group can be obtained from:
- 	     /usr/group
- 	     4655 Old Ironsides Drive, Suite 200
- 	     Santa Clara, CA  95054
- 	     408-986-8840
  

--- 195,196 -----
  unix-pc.test 		Test group.
  
-- 
Gene Spafford
NSF/Purdue/U of Florida  Software Engineering Research Center,
Dept. of Computer Sciences, Purdue University, W. Lafayette IN 47907-2004
Internet:  spaf@cs.purdue.edu	uucp:	...!{decwrl,gatech,ucbvax}!purdue!spaf