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From: Chris Croughton <chris@keristor.net>
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Subject: Re: Other groups
Date: Thu, 19 May 2005 12:48:33 +0100
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On Wed, 18 May 2005 20:47:27 +0100, Mike Lyle
<mike_lyle_uk@REMOVETHISyahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> Sorry to butt in, but you do know that there are already
> alt.usage.english and alt.english.usage, and, for learners and
> teachers, misc.education.language.english, don't you?
Yes, aue and aeu are horribly high-volume (I don't totally follow the
"you shouldn't post unless you read everything" school of behaviour but
I do feel that reading at least a reasonable proportion is necessary.
(Incidentally, you missed uk.culture.language.english, which is the one
most on-topic for me...)
> If you want to pursue different lines of discussion, or have a
> different group of members, then of course this is a place to do it:
> I'm not empire-building! But I've found people don't always know
> exactly what's out there in the tens of thousands of Usenet groups,
> so I thought it might be worth mentioning, since duplication isn't
> always convenient. For example, I only found out that this group
> existed because it was mentioned in a cross-posting.
Indeed, mentioning it is certainly a Good Thing(tm). I gather that
alt.languages.english was created by accident as a typo which caused
some weirdly-configured server to create it and thereby propagate that
creation to reputable servers as well (where I saw it because it
appeared as a "new newsgroup" on NIN).
It's a cosy low-traffic group, except for the occasional crossposts...
Chris C
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