To know whether or not these newsgroups will meet your needs, the
purpose for which they were created are given below.

3.1  COMP.LANG.ASM.X86

comp.lang.asm.x86 was created based upon voting on a Request for
Discussion (RFD).  The RFD for this newsgroup is:

The moderated newsgroup comp.lang.asm.x86 will be open to discussions on
all topics related to assembly language and low-level programming on any
machine using a x86 processor or its clones.  Appropriate topics would
include, but not be limited to:

Assembly language code tips, tricks, and techniques.
MASM, TASM, and other commercial assemblers
NASM, and other non-commercial assemblers
Graphics, sound, and other hardware programming
Assembly language related utilities commercial/share/free-ware
Linking assembly language with other languages
Inline x86 programming utilizing assembly emulators in higher level
    languages
Propagation of non-commercial Internet x86 resources
Any question/discussion of the direct programming of the x86
Etc...

Topics that will be filtered are:

Flames about "{Language X} is {better/worse} than ASM"
Flames like "{Assembler 1} is {better/worse} than {Assembler 2}"
Flames, personal attacks, insults, etc.
HLL code, except when used for low-level hardware programming.
Product comparisons except when presented in an unbiased fashion.
Advertisements unrelated to assembly programming or utilities.
Posts in languages other than English will be examined for approval
  if any of the moderators can read the language in question.  There
  is no guarantee of approval for a post in any language other than
  English.

Posting to comp.lang.asm.x86, a moderated newsgroup, is not any
different for you as posting to an unmoderated newsgroup.  When you are
finished composing your post just send it as you normally do.  Your
ISP’s news server will send the post to the moderator’s e-mail address.
Once approved, the moderator will post it.  Therefore, you will not see
your postings immediately in the newsgroup.  It should take no longer
than a day or so to see it.

3.2  ALT.LANG.ASM

Alt newsgroups are initiated with a Proposal posting to the alt.config
newsgroup.  The proposal for alt.lang.asm is:

alt.lang.asm will address the problems of machine language programmers
out there in Internet land.  It will be a forum for discussion of coding
techniques and efficiency problems related to machine language.  The
scope will be broad.  We will not discriminate by machine architecture,
race or sex.

Contributors: Raymond Moon, raymoon@moonware.dgsys.com
Last changed: 9 Dec 97

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