Posted by Jerry Stuckle on 05/19/06 20:37

John Dunlop wrote:
> Erwin Moller:
>
>
>>Does anybody know why we have so many PHP related NG's?
>>(php.general, alt.php to name a few)
>
>
> [...]
>
>
>>I am curious if anybody has thoughts about this.
>
>
> Like you, Erwin, I'm only subscribed to c.l.php. Believe it or not,
> my ISP carries alt.php and alt.comp.lang.php but not c.l.php!
> Exception to the rule, I reckon.
>
> I chose c.l.php over the others because my impression was that
> c.l.php had the most traffic and because it was the one in the comp.*
> hierarchy, one of the so-called Big-8 hierarchies.
>
> I think the most noticeable problem with having more than one
> newsgroup covering the same topic is multiposting, although I don't see
> a problem with crossposting to the three newsgroups, alt.php,
> alt.comp.lang.php and c.l.php. Not sure if the alt.* newsgroups have
> contributors that c.l.php doesn't have.
>

John,

Did you ask your ISP if they would carry it? I've found most ISPs are amiable
to such requests, unless they involve porn, pirated software, etc.

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