From: paul pigott 
Subject: Re: Should we create comp.lang.basic.powerbasic?
 
Guy Macon wrote:
>
> I am a Powerbasic user and also one of the folks in the news.groups
> newsgroup who help people to get new newsgroups started.
>
> As you may have noticed, spam in alt.* newsgroups is increasing.
> What you may not know is that many sites which carry comp.* groups
> don't carry alt.* ones.  This is very common on corporate and
> education newsservers, and tends to limit many people who use
> powerbasic in science and engineering from reading this newsgroup.
>
> So I ask the question: is this the time to try to start a newsgroup
> called comp.lang.basic.powerbasic?  To get a comp.* newsgroup, we
> need around 120 people who will be willing to go to news.groups and
> fill out an email ballot voting for the news group.  Do we have taht
> many?  Does anyone have any objections to creating such a newsgroup?
 
Count me in.  After you've wandered through all those adult
advertisements, it quickly gets annoying.
 
Paul
 
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