[alt.sources] Noise level is deafening.. even for alt.

kent@ssbell.UUCP (Kent Landfield) (07/04/89)

In article <5752@ingr.com> brooke@ingr.UUCP (Brooke King) writes:
>In article <60@loria.crin.fr> tombre@weissenburger.crin.fr (Karl Tombre) writes:
>|This discussion has quickly evolved into a discussion about
>|models of society.
>
>So lets take it out of alt.sources and news.admin!

Did I just imagine the creation of alt.sources.d ? Was it just wishful
thinking that the new group would help reduce the discussions in alt.sources ?

My newsgroups file describe this group as:
alt.sources		Alternative source code, unmoderated. Caveat Emptor.
                                    ^^^^^^^^^^^
			-Kent+
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makela@tukki.jyu.fi (Otto J. Makela) (07/04/89)

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	   "This newsgroup is alt.sources\n"
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