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From: mcgrath@paris.Berkeley.EDU (Roland McGrath)
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Subject: Re: more <expletive deleted>
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Date: 31 May 89 22:44:04 GMT
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In-reply-to: rcbc@honir.cs.cornell.edu's message of 31 May 89 14:39:53 GMT

In article <28400@cornell.UUCP> rcbc@honir.cs.cornell.edu (Robert Cooper) writes:
   Originally gnu.gcc was a technical newsgroup for discussion and
   announcements about a high quality C compiler. Then it became a forum for
   sometimes vitriolic argument about gnu's goals and the restrictive business
   practices of some computer corporations. 

Originally it was a mailing list whose stated, and respected, purpose was to
discuss technical issues of GCC.  Then it became a Usenet newsgroup.
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	Roland McGrath
	Free Software Foundation, Inc.
roland@ai.mit.edu, uunet!ai.mit.edu!roland