twb@hoqax.UUCP (BEATTIE) (08/03/87)
In article <1410@mit-amt.MEDIA.MIT.EDU>, henry@garp.mit.edu (Henry Mensch) writes: > ...*ANYONE* can get the alt.all groups. All it requires is > enough initiative on the part of your usenet administrator to arrange > for a feed. Enough sites get alt.all that this shouldn't be too > difficult. Every host that I have usenet access on has them. > Kwitcherbellyachin! What a load of CRAP! 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. Tom.
lear@aramis.rutgers.edu.UUCP (08/04/87)
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]
dhb@rayssd.RAY.COM (David H. Brierley) (08/04/87)
In article <1004@hoqax.UUCP> twb@hoqax.UUCP (BEATTIE) writes: >In article <1410@mit-amt.MEDIA.MIT.EDU>, henry@garp.mit.edu (Henry Mensch) writes: >> ...*ANYONE* can get the alt.all groups. All it requires is >> enough initiative on the part of your usenet administrator to arrange >> for a feed. ... >What a load of CRAP! > >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. Oh, I see. Because you have never heard of the newsgroup it doesn't exist. Seems like a reasonable statement to me. Guess I better unsubscribe to alt.sources and alt.gourmand and while I'm at it I might as well tell all my newsfeeds to stop sending me these non-existant newsgroups. The "alt" in alt.* stands for "alternative". It is an alternative to the normal USENET backbone. As Henry said, anyone can join. All you have to do is find someone who carries alt.* and arrange for a feed. -- David H. Brierley Raytheon Submarine Signal Division 1847 West Main Road Portsmouth, RI 02871 Phone: (401)-847-8000 x4073 Internet: dhb@rayssd.ray.com Uucp: {cbosgd, gatech, linus, mirror, necntc, uiucdcs} !rayssd!dhb
allbery@ncoast.UUCP (08/09/87)
As quoted from <1207@aramis.rutgers.edu> by lear@aramis.rutgers.edu (eliot lear): +--------------- | 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? ;-) +--------------- Yes, UUNET carries the alt subnet. So does ncoast. And hoptoad is the hub. I understand that 20% of the net now carries the alt subnet. -- Brandon S. Allbery, moderator of comp.sources.misc and comp.binaries.ibm.pc {{harvard,mit-eddie}!necntc,well!hoptoad,sun!mandrill!hal}!ncoast!allbery ARPA: necntc!ncoast!allbery@harvard.harvard.edu Fido: 157/502 MCI: BALLBERY <<ncoast Public Access UNIX: +1 216 781 6201 24hrs. 300/1200/2400 baud>> ** Site "cwruecmp" is changing its name to "mandrill". Please re-address ** *** all mail to ncoast to pass through "mandrill" instead of "cwruecmp". ***