Why 3 NGs for php?

[Al. C]

Why are there:

alt.comp.lang.php
alt.php
comp.lang.php

on the SBC-Yahoo (DSL) list of NGs. Just curious.

Al C.

[Tony Marston]

PHP is now accepted as a *proper* language, so it was given a proper
newsgroup in comp.lang.php. As the alt.whatever groups are now deprecated
only Neanderthals still use them.

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Tony Marston

http://www.tonymarston.net

"Al. C" <no*************@adams-blake.no.spam.com> wrote in message
news:EN******************@newssvr14.news.prodigy.c om...

Why are there:

alt.comp.lang.php
alt.php
comp.lang.php

on the SBC-Yahoo (DSL) list of NGs. Just curious.

Al C.

[Warren Oates]

In article <EN******************@newssvr14.news.prodigy.com >,
"Al. C" <no*************@adams-blake.no.spam.com> wrote:

:alt.comp.lang.php
:alt.php
:comp.lang.php

I was wondering that. If you know how Usenet works, though, it probably
goes back to some obscure (flame) war about what's on-topic and what's
not. Or maybe the people who set up the alt.* groups didn't notice that
there was a comp.lang group available.
--
Looks like more of Texas to me.
.... Arizona, where the nights are warm and the roads are straight.

[Matthias Esken]

Al. C wrote:

Why are there:

alt.comp.lang.php
alt.php
comp.lang.php

History.

Noone removed the alt-groups when comp.lang.php was created.

Regards,
Matthias

[Tim Roberts]

"Al. C" <no*************@adams-blake.no.spam.com> wrote:

Why are there:

alt.comp.lang.php
alt.php
comp.lang.php

on the SBC-Yahoo (DSL) list of NGs. Just curious.

The "big 7" newsgroup hierarchies (comp, misc, news, rec, sci, soc, talk)
are centrally controlled. New groups can only be created after filing a
justification and going through a lengthy voting process. The higher the
group is in the hierarchy, the more complicated the voting.

The "alt" hierarchy is a free-for-all. Anyone can create any group at any
time. So, when someone is interested in a new group in an important
hierarchy like comp.lang, they will usually create an alt version of it.
Having an established newsgroup with heavy traffic is great evidence during
the justification/voting process.

"alt.php" was probably a mistake.
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- Tim Roberts, ti**@probo.com
Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.