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From: smith@ncoast.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d,comp.sys.ibm.pc,news.groups
Subject: Re: Source code newsgroup for MS-DOS
Message-ID: <7867@ncoast.UUCP>
Date: 4 Jun 88 06:28:09 GMT
References: <1555@bu-tyng.bu.edu> <3186@bsu-cs.UUCP> <11803@ut-sally.UUCP>
Reply-To: smith@ncoast.UUCP (Phil Smith)
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Organization: Cleveland Public Access UN*X, Cleveland, Oh
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> Article <11803@ut-sally.UUCP> From: nather@ut-sally.UUCP (Ed Nather)

> In article <3186@bsu-cs.UUCP>, dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi) writes:
> > 
> > Better still, we need comp.sources.msdos.  Why doesn't somebody propose
> > it?  The net population likes sources, so it should have no trouble
> > getting approved, and it might even encourage more source postings.
> > -- 
> 
> I second the motion.  Before the Great Net Reorganization we had a group
> for MS-DOS sources which was extremely popular -- some chaff, but a fair
> amount of wheat, too.  Now MS-DOS sources are posted to a lot of different
> newsgroups, many that are inappropriate, or are not posted at all.
> 
Discussions of this nature belong in news.groups according
to the guidelines put out by Spaf.
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