Changing alt.sources to comp.something

Tom Christiansen tchrist at convex.COM
Mon Feb 18 11:16:37 AEST 1991


>From the keyboard of ejo at ims.alaska.edu (Eric Olson):
:In article <1991Feb17.232832.18326 at convex.com> tchrist at convex.COM (Tom Christiansen) writes:
:
:>On a somewhat unrelated note, can we change alt.sources to be called
:>comp.sources.free or comp.sources.any or something?  Not everyone gets it,
:>and it is quite valuable despite the occasional dross that shows up
:>there.
:
:It actually fits in pretty well with comp.sources.misc, doesn't it?

Well, yes, except that comp.sources.misc is moderated.  I'm not saying
to make comp.sources.misc unmoderated, just to add back the unmoderated
sources group into the comp.sources hierarchy somewhere.  I guess that
comp.sources.misc.something would be ok.

--tom
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