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	Alt.* hierarchy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The birth of the alt.* hierarchy is tied to a drastic transformation of the Usenet, the Great Renaming of 1987.
		The alt.* hierarchy is not confined to newsgroups of any specific subject or type, although in practice more formally organised groups tend not to occur in alt.
		The alt.* hierarchy was suggested as an alternative to talk.* by Brian Reid.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Alt_hierarchy (791 words)

	Norms in Cyberspace - Berkman Center for Internet and Society
		Messages were aggregated by group hierarchy, by whether or not the message was found in a moderated group, by group (the fundamental unit of Usenet community) and by the top-level domain of the message poster.
		The UK hierarchy was found to have 50% commercial messaging, however this is attributed to the size of the random sample in this particular hierarchy.
		The hierarchy of a newsgroup is denoted by the "word" preceding the first dot in its name.
	cyber.law.harvard.edu /norms/findings.asp (2314 words)

	Alt Hierarchy History - Brian Reid, Usenet Newsgroups, Backbone Administrators
		The introduction of genuine free speech on the Usenet began with the creation of the "alt." hierarchy, sparked by the creation of alt.sex.
		Like the development of mulitple IRC networks, the establishment of the "alt." category established a right to freedom of expression as a reaction against over-control at the center.
		The first attempt to control Usenet speech resulted in the creation of the "talk." hierarchy*, where all controversial newsgroups and postings were supposed to be allocated.
	www.livinginternet.com /u/ui_alt.htm (724 words)

	Alt (disambiguation) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Alt attribute, an attribute in Hypertext Markup Language (HTML), whose value is text that is normally used to indicate the function of an image in situations where the image is not displayed
		ALT (band), a group of musicians, the members of which are Andy White, Liam O'Maonlai and Tim Finn
		ALT Linux, a distribution of Linux computer software, or a team of developers that work on the software
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/ALT (271 words)

	Alt Binaries
		The "alt" hierarchy is another major hierarchy where you’ll find a massive variety of discussion groups dedicated to topics as different as astrology and zoology and everything in between.
		Because of the anarchic nature of the alt hierarchy it is often jokingly referred to as the "Anarchists, Lunatics and Terrorists" hierarchy.
		In the alt.binaries hierarchy you will find hundreds of newsgroups dedicated to any topic you can think of and to sharing binaries associated with that topic.
	www.binaries.net /articles/alt_binaries.htm (286 words)

	Alt Newsgroups
		In this sense, the alt hierarchy is an “alternative&; to the conventional hierarchies, such as news, soc, rec, sci, misc, talk, and comp.
		It is recommended, however, that before starting a new alt newsgroup, to go into the alt.config newsgroup and propose the creation of the group to its audience, describing why you think that newsgroup should exist.
		newsgroup hierarchy was created back in the early days of Usenet as a hierarchy in which users to be able to create newsgroups without having others vote for them or without following any specific rules or guidelines, as those were requirements for starting a newsgroup at that time.
	www.usenet.com /articles/alt_newsgroups.htm (519 words)

	- Alt News -
		Alt news is a common newsgroup hierarchy within Usenet.
		The Alt hierarchy is just like any other and can be easily accessed with a newsreader or through a provider’s Web-to-News Gateway (if available).
		Alt is short for “alternative&; and is not a part of the mainstream (Big 8) Usenet hierarchies.
	www.cyberfiber.com /articles/alt_news.htm (247 words)

	So You Want to Create an Alt Newsgroup
		It is a hierarchy that is "alternative" to the "mainstream" (comp,misc,news, rec,soc,sci,talk) hierarchy.
		The "alt" net is the last remaining refuge away from the control freaks, namespace purists and net.cops (like myself) that maintain and enforce the mainstream newsgroup guidelines.
		This is not an attempt to codify rules or guidelines for alt, but merely a guide to help people get the most out of alt, as well as a reflection of some established procedures.
	www.faqs.org /faqs/alt-creation-guide (3573 words)

	rec.arts.horror
		As for which hierarchy these newsgroups belong in, it's felt that a venue outside of the alt.* hierarchy is needed for the horror field, for all topics, since alt.* groups have a low signal-to-noise ratio with massive spamming, and are carried by fewer servers than the rec.* hierarchy.
		Also, a venue outside of the alt.* hierarchy is needed for the horror field, for all topics, since alt.* groups have a low signal-to-noise ratio with massive spamming, and have a more limited audience than the rec.* hierarchy.
		Commercial messages should be strictly related to the newsgroup topic, should be posted no more than once every three months, and their commercial nature should be clearly indicated in the subject line of the message's header.
	faqs.org /ftp/pub/usenet/news.announce.newgroups/rec/rec.arts.horror (11703 words)

	Baha'i Faith & Religious Freedom of Conscience
		It is noted that the alt.* hierarchy is less well propagated than the talk.* hierarchy; this has meant that many people who have voted YES on earlier proposals have been unable to join discussions on alt.religion.bahai.
		Please note that despite the poor propagation of the alt.* hierarchy the high rate of posting demonstrates significant interest, justifying the forming of an unmoderated newsgroup on the Bahai Faith on the talk.* hierarchy.
		Please note that despite the lower propagation rate of the alt.* hierarchy, the high rate of posting demonstrates significant interest, supporting the formation of an unmoderated newsgroup on the talk.* hierarchy.
	www.fglaysher.com /bahaicensorship/3rdRFD.htm (2734 words)

	Free Hierarchy
		The difference between free.* and alt.* is that the name free.* comes from the word freedom and most important in the free.* hierarchy is the users’ freedom of speech.
		The free hierarchy is younger than the alt hierarchy and nobody knows how it may develop in the future.
		With this hierarchy, the idea is “no control at all,” not even if it looks like somebody is committing a net-abuse.
	www.usenet.com /articles/free_hierarchy.htm (380 words)

	Internet Service Romania, S.A. - Glosar
		But because it's the only hierarchy where new groups can be established by individual users without going through a formal voting process, the alt hierarchy has also become the home for fast-changing subjects within the more accepted disciplines.
		For example, alt.pets and alt.windows95.misc are located within the "alt" hierarchy.
		The alternate hierarchy was not part of the original Usenet system.
	www.isr.co.ro /glossary/glosstermalt.html (134 words)

	266130.txt
		Learning the semantic hierarchy is essential and crucial in the machine translation task because the quality of learned translation rules is determined by the quality of this hierarchy and it is very difficult for a person to create and maintain a useful hierarchy.
		A new hierarchy is then generated by applying a clustering method to inter- nal disjunctions of the learned rules and new rules are learned under the bias of this hierarchy.
		The generated semantic hierarchy works well to improve the accuracy of the learned rules in the following case: 4 In the statistical literature, such a matrix is called a dissimilarity matrix, since a value of 0 indicates that two terms are unrelated, and large values indicate a strong relationship between the two terms.
	nlp.fi.muni.cz /projekty/wnportal/ps/txt/266130.txt (4482 words)

	University of Pittsburgh Newsgroup Guidelines
		The criteria used to decide whether to approve a newsgroup hierarchy addition request are based largely on the anticipated resources the newsgroup hierarchy will require, and additionally upon the anticipated ability of the Usenet news server to successfully receive and distribute articles in the hierarchy's newsgroups.
		Most of the Usenet newsgroup hierarchies we carry have formal procedures that are used to create or delete newsgroups within the hierarchy.
		With such hierarchies, our policy is to carry only (and all of) the canonical newsgroups for the hierarchy.
	www.pitt.edu /~news/groups.html (1211 words)

	NNQ: Creating New Newsgroups
		Most hierarchies have a designated "maintainer" who, by general custom and/or agreement, is the "official" source of newgroup control messages for that hierarchy.
		Fundamentally, no matter what the hierarchy, a new group is "created" when someone posts a special kind of message called a newgroup control message that asks news server administrators everywhere to create the group locally on their servers.
		hierarchy is for newsgroups with discussions in the German language.
	web.presby.edu /~nnqadmin/nnq/ncreate.html (1285 words)

	alt.is.dead
		That hierarchy is definitely deceased, and when I downloaded it not 'alf an hour ago, you assured me that its total lack of life beyond spam was due to it bein' tired and shagged out following a prolonged cancel-moratorium.
		Customer: Look, I took the liberty of examining that hierarchy when I got it home, and I discovered the only reason that it could be seen over the spam in first place was because you cancelled all the spam.
		I wish to complain about this hierarchy what I downloaded not half an hour ago from this very ISP.
	www.utdallas.edu /~asimpson/misc/funny/alt.is.dead (613 words)

	Newsgroups (Part II)
		In a sense, the alt hierarchy is like a subset of USENET with it's own general sub-hierarchies (covering everything from alt.animals to alt.zima).
		So the alt hierarchy can be a wealth of information and a chaotic jumble all at the same time.
		As a result, it is the largest of the hierarchies since it covers pretty much all of the topics covered in the other hierarchies and it allows new groups to be created easily.
	www.azstarnet.com /service/dev/cd/usenet/general/part2.htm (527 words)

	Moving the hacking newsgroups out of the alt hierarchy
		Well, the time for the entire alt.* hierarchy on usenet to collapse is coming soon.
		The best hierarchy that I can think of would be the rec.* hierarchy.
		People with groups in alt that they care about should immediately start considering moving somewhere else.
	www.msu.edu /~osborne6/2600 (295 words)

	hierarchy
		Grep of noun hierarchy data hierarchy hierarchy Overview of noun hierarchy The noun hierarchy has 2 senses (first 2 from tagged texts) 1.
		(2) hierarchy -- (a series of ordered groupings of people or things within a system: "put honesty first in her hierarchy of values") 2.
		(2) hierarchy, power structure, pecking order -- (the organization of people at different ranks in an administrative body) Overview of noun hierarchy The noun hierarchy has 2 senses (first 2 from tagged texts) 1.
	www.beetfoundation.com /words/h/alt.hierarchy.html (186 words)

	Newsgroup Creation Usenet Computers English LoCuaL
		Complete information on how to create newsgroups, in the Big 8 hierarchy, alt.*, and a few other assorted hierarchies.
		Detailed explanations on "newgroup" messages for alt.* groups, the type of control message which creates a newsgroup, and the correct way to write and send them.
		Here are simple instructions how to create a new newsgroup in the free.uk.* hierarchy and a list of newsservers which carry the free.uk.* groups.
	locual.com /D/Idioma/English/Computers/Usenet/Newsgroup_Creation (432 words)

	Hierarchy
		Hierarchy names are not always so revealing, and some of them are deliberate jokes, like alt.swedish.chef.bork.bork.bork.
		Generally accepted as "alternative" (although not in the sense of alternative music), although some claim it stands for "Anarchists, Lunatics, Terrorists." The alt hierarchy is home to almost any sort of topic, especially groups dedicated to "fan" discussions, and the infamous.sex and.binaries newsgroups.
		There are many other parts of the name hierarchy.
	www.usyd.edu.au /su/allenunwin/news/extra/nhrrchy.htm (420 words)

	Education-Related Newsgroups FAQ (Learn in Freedom!)
		Few alt.* newsgroups related to education have anywhere near the volume of postings of a "big eight" newsgroup, but some are focused on very interesting aspects of education.
		As part of one of the Usenet "big eight" hierarchies that have to go through independently verified voting procedures to form new newsgroups, the newsgroups in the comp.* hierarchy should be carried at just about every Usenet site around the world.
		The misc.* hierarchy has had a steady growth of education-related newsgroups since early 1994, and features the most international discussions of education issues to be found anywhere.
	learninfreedom.org /ed-newsgroups.html (1999 words)

	Dictionary of Computers - alt hierarchy
		The alt hierarchy was created to allow users to bypass this process.
		Many of the most active newsgroups are alt groups, such as alt.flame and alt.sex.
		Big Seven hierarchies, allow the creation of newsgroups only after structured discussion and a vote to demonstrate that demand for the newsgroup exists.
	www.tiscali.co.uk /reference/dictionaries/computers/data/m0051312.html (106 words)

	Why "alt.binaries"?
		For those not already aware of the reason for the alt.binaries hierarchy, it was created as a compromise which would enable sites with disk space or bandwidth limitations to easily handle binaries groups according to their own priorities.
		Out of this consideration was born the "alt.binaries" hierarchy.
		Either policy requires a change to be made to each news server, for each hierarchy which contains binaries groups; thus, it is several orders of magnitude easier for news admins (the nice people who make USENET possible for everyone else) if the binaries groups are collected together in a single hierarchy.
	www.landfield.com /usenet/alt/notes/alt-binaries.html (135 words)

	alt newsgroup creation website
		There is nothing specifically wrong with doing this, but as a consequence of this freedom most servers wont automatically carry new newsgroups, and operate a policy of only adding alt.* hierarchy newsgroups on a customers request.
		First off It should be pointed out that there are no rules in alt., there are traditions and there is common sense, but you are well within your rights to ignore both...That's the beauty of alt*.
		Over the years groups have been shuffled into named hierarchies so that subjects of a similar ilk sit next to each other in your newsgroups file, the hierarchical style was born out of common sense and to aid the process of searching for a group of interest.
	snetter.tripod.com (1435 words)

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		Control-Alt-Delete (often abbreviated to Ctrl-Alt-Del) is a computer keyboard command on IBM PC compatible systems that can be used to reboot the computer.
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	encyclopedia.localcolorart.com /encyclopedia/Control-Alt-Delete (1338 words)

	[alt.paranormal] Charter FAQ
		The alt.* hierarchy Now at about the time of the Great Renaming, some people objected to this whole idea and went off to found what became the alt.* hierarchy.
		The use of charters in the alt.* hierarchy 6.
		To this end, newsgroups in the Big 8 hierarchy are only formed after long discussion and voting where interested parties decide whether or not a new newsgroup is really required to discuss the subject.
	www.cs.uu.nl /wais/html/na-dir/paranormal/charter.html (850 words)

	Alt hierarchy.html - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		We don't have an article called "Alt hierarchy.html"
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Alt_hierarchy.html (36 words)

	Reading the Alt Hierarchy from the Campus News Server
		Here is a list of programs and instructions to assist you in reading the alt.* hierarchy from the campus-wide news server.
		If there are alt.* groups that you wish to read that are not available from the campus news server, write to news@news.service.uci.edu and request that group.
		Clicking on the new icon will cause the yellow arrow to point downward, and the alt groups to which you are subscribed will appear.
	www.ics.uci.edu /computing/unix/news/altnews.php (446 words)

	The Alternative Hierarchy
		Nevertheless, the most interesting groups are usually alt.* groups (at least for dicussion, if you need reasonable answers to your questions, you better try BIG8) and alt is also the hierarchy where you will find all the binary groups (alt.binaries.*).
		In alt.* most posters use screen names instead of their real names, you should also uphold Usenet etiquette in alt.*, but most posters aren't as strict as BIG8 posters, meaning smaller etiquette violations are usually not punished.
		Also the alt.* tree is a bit chaotic and there are plenty of duplicates (multiple Newsgroups about a single topic), making it impossible to unite all fans of a specific topic into one place.
	tgos.org /newbie/newsgroups3.html (379 words)

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