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- From: twpierce@amhux1.amherst.edu (Tim Pierce)
- Subject: Re: RFD: alt.apple.newton
- Message-ID: <1992Jul25.160627.20371@amhux2.amherst.edu>
- Keywords: Newton
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- Organization: Amherst College, Amherst MA
- References: <1992Jul22.160045.3230@cc.gatech.edu> <XF8coB23w165w@mantis.co.uk>
- Date: Sat, 25 Jul 1992 16:06:27 GMT
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- In article <XF8coB23w165w@mantis.co.uk> mathew <mathew@mantis.co.uk> writes:
-
- >byrne@cc.gatech.edu (Michael Byrne) writes:
- >
- >> Don't call it "alt" anything--some sites can't get alt groups,
- >> and it certainly is a "comp" subject. How about comp.sys.newton?
- >
- >All sites *can* get alt groups. Some *choose* not to do so. There is an
- >important difference.
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- No site "chooses" to do anything. The administrators at those sites
- do the choosing. The point is obviously "many people at various sites
- can't get alt groups," which is clearly true.
-
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