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Re: G> java-interest vs. comp.lang.java

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tim Newsome)
Fri Sep 29 22:58:17 1995

Date: Fri, 29 Sep 1995 20:32:28 -0400
From: Tim Newsome <drz@cybercomm.net>
To: paulp@CERF.NET, java-interest@java.sun.com

In alt.www.hotjava you write:

>Now that comp.lang.java exists (and is immediately full of garbage, how I 
>love Usenet) what are the respective roles of this mailing list and the 
>newsgroup? Are there any plans to do a unidirectional or bidirectional 
>gateway between them? If not, the charter of java-interest should be 
>different in some way from comp.lang.java so we have some pretense of 
>forum orthogonality.

Currently I am forwarding both mailing lists to alt.www.hotjava
It would be easy to add comp.lang.java too. If ppl want that then I'll do
it. Note that the gateway is one-way only.

Tim
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