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From: twb@hoqax.UUCP (BEATTIE)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d,news.groups
Subject: Re: net.sources is GONE
Message-ID: <310@hoqax.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 2-Jan-87 12:45:04 EST
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Posted: Fri Jan  2 12:45:04 1987
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> I firmly believe that net.sources should not have been deleted without
> providing a direct replacement (comp.sources).
> 
> The THEORY is that mod.sources supercedes net.sources.  However, this
> is just NOT TRUE!
>  John P. Nelson, ex mod.sources moderator.

I completely agree net.sources MUST be replaced - not everything posted
to net.sources is approprate for mod.sources.
If comp.sources isn't available I would expect a lot of source to be
posted to inappropriate (and probably multiple) groups.
This also makes it hard to get the source to the people who might be
interested.

I would have never gotten the phase-of-the-moon program I have if it was
posted to an astronomy group.

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Tom.
T.W. Beattie
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