Alt.* hierarchy
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alt-hierarchy-215-2608138
title:
Alt.* hierarchy
text:
The alt.* hierarchy is a major class of newsgroups in Usenet, containing all newsgroups whose name begins with "alt.", organized hierarchically. The alt.* hierarchy is not confined to newsgroups of any specific subject or type, although in practice more formally organized groups tend not to occur in alt.*. The alt.* hierarchy was created by John Gilmore and Brian Reid. Unlike most of the other hierarchies, there is no centralized control of the hierarchy and anyone who is technically capable of
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Subclass of Usenet newsgroups
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alt.*_hierarchy
date created:
2003-03-12T23:25:50Z
date modified:
2024-09-12T18:17:54Z
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