Perhaps you should ask this question at alt.woodworking.
"Fred" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> Why that group alt.woodworking with 476 posts when you have this group
> rec.woodworking with over 288,000 posts?
>
Fred wrote:
> Why that group alt.woodworking with 476 posts when you have this group
> rec.woodworking with over 288,000 posts?
I'm a little fuzzy on how newsgroups are created but the requisites
for groups in the alt.heirarchy are less (maybe nonexistant) than
in the other heirarchies. E.g. alt.chef.swedish.bork.bork.bork comes
to mind.
So alt.heirarchy may have been created by someone who
1) Didn't know about rec.woodworking.
2) Had a newsfeed that did not carry rec.woodworking (maybe not any
rec. gourps, but did carry alt. groups
3) was unhappy with rec.woodworking and so created his own alternate
newsgroup.
In some cases there may be alt. groups that existed befor there was
enough interest to create a group in one of the 'big five' heirarchies.
NOt so for *.woodworking, rec.woodworking goes way, way back,
back even before there was Nahrm.
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FF
yup. is AW his creation?
Dave
Patriarch wrote:
> David <[email protected]> wrote in news:[email protected]:
>
>
>>Hell if I know, Fred. I didn't even know of it's existence. And now
>>that I know about it, I STILL won't bother with a low-traffic NG.
>>
>>Dave
>>
>
>
> Remember Vito?
>
> Patriarch
Actually my server has alt.woodworking.vito-kuhn
"David" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> yup. is AW his creation?
>
> Dave
>
> Patriarch wrote:
>
> > David <[email protected]> wrote in
news:[email protected]:
> >
> >
> >>Hell if I know, Fred. I didn't even know of it's existence. And now
> >>that I know about it, I STILL won't bother with a low-traffic NG.
> >>
> >>Dave
> >>
> >
> >
> > Remember Vito?
> >
> > Patriarch
David <[email protected]> wrote in news:[email protected]:
> Hell if I know, Fred. I didn't even know of it's existence. And now
> that I know about it, I STILL won't bother with a low-traffic NG.
>
> Dave
>
Remember Vito?
Patriarch
"Fred" <[email protected]> wrote in news:[email protected]:
> Why that group alt.woodworking with 476 posts when you have this group
> rec.woodworking with over 288,000 posts?
>
>
Were you to google "alt.woodworking" while in the rec.woodworking groups
search page, much of the short and sordid story would become clear.
I have neither the interest or the perspective to try to explain the
inexplicable. It's not so much about woodworking, as about the human
personality, and the tendency of some individuals to want to control
others, according to their rules.
That tends not to fly too well on Usenet.
Patriarch
LOL, Dave. I think my McAfee virus checker don't allow me posting to that
group either.
"David" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> Maybe they don't want anyone asking questions, Fred.
>
> Dave
>
> Fred wrote:
>
>>>Perhaps you should ask this question at alt.woodworking.
>>>
>>>
>>
>> I did asked a question but was it was not posted or maybe blocked.
On Sat, 25 Jun 2005 14:38:21 -0700, "Fred" <[email protected]> wrote:
>Why that group alt.woodworking with 476 posts when you have this group
>rec.woodworking with over 288,000 posts?
>
It's not filled with off-topic BS, or questions other than to do with
woodworking?
On Sat, 25 Jun 2005 14:38:21 -0700, "Fred" <[email protected]> wrote:
>Why that group alt.woodworking
It's a schismatic offshoot of free.uk.woodworking, only smaller.
Just ignore it.
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