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In article news:a3eaa964.0302261422.4d166fa1@posting.google.com , Kent
Paul Dolan wrote:

"[..]

Crossposted to comp.lang.ada, which _really_ should add
comp.lang.ada.*, where * == {misc,gnat,advocacy,???}, to give
discussions like this a home."

See how the proposal for a SPARK newsgroup was treated. As for GNAT: there
are email lists, and for advocay there is the Team Ada email list.

Using a less flaky news server than usual, I saw today that there is a
fairly new newsgroup news:alt.comp.lang.ada which does not seem to have
had any posts yet. Its description was similar to a lot of other
alt.comp.lang.* newsgroups launched at the same time. Why does it exist?