Re: What does "alt" mean in alt.home.repair?



dean wrote:
> And in a lot of other groups?

I ran it through Google translation and it means "stop" in several
languages. Who the hell would want to stop homes from being repaired?!
I can only surmise that there were a lot of negative people who
founded these newsgroups. ;)

R

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