Re: Proposal: New Newsgroup Heirarchy

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From: Ian Dickinson
Date: Mon, 02 Nov 1992 17:32

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In article <1992Oct29.210720.24740@news.columbia.edu> dan@cubmol.bio.columbia.edu (Daniel Zabetakis) writes:
>>Why not alt.election, etc?  Really?  Or how about trial.election?
>   I think the point is that the groups in this hierarchy would be removed
>after a short period of time.

This reinforces the need for a hierarchy outside of alt.* since there
are some strange people who view an rmgroup within alt to be a crime
of horrific proportions.

alt.* should be fine for this sort of thing, but back in the real usenet
world - things are different.

Cheers,
-- 
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Subject: Re: Proposal: New Newsgroup Heirarchy
Date: 2 Nov 1992 17:32:17 -0000
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