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Subject:Re: PROPOSAL: alt.winhelp and alt.winhelp.win95 From:Karen Kay <karenk -at- NETCOM -dot- COM> Date:Sun, 11 Jun 1995 11:41:22 -0700
Daniel A. Hartung said:
> >If no opposition is voiced within seven after the posting of this
> >article, I will create alt.winhelp and alt.winhelp.win95 as described above.
> Expect extremely low propagation because of the duplication.
Also, a lot of sites simply don't *get* alt.* groups, but get comp.*
groups as a matter of course.