---
title: "The ALT.NET Mailing list is a great place to have a conversation"
url: "https://osherove.com/blog/2007/10/21/the-altnet-mailing-list-is-a-great-place-to-have-a-conversat.md"
canonical: "https://osherove.com/blog/2007/10/21/the-altnet-mailing-list-is-a-great-place-to-have-a-conversat.html"
published: "2007-10-21T12:52:49"
updated: "2007-10-21T12:52:49"
tags: [".NET", "General Software Devel...", "altnet", "altnetconf"]
author: "Roy Osherove"
description: "This is how much conversation there is on the ALT.NET Mailing list in the past couple of days: Very good content, great people. It's been a while since I've had a list keep me so busy so long."
usage: "Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page)."
license: "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
---

# The ALT.NET Mailing list is a great place to have a conversation

By Roy Osherove October 21, 2007 In [.NET](https://osherove.com/blog/category/net), [General Software Devel...](https://osherove.com/blog/category/general-software-devel), [altnet](https://osherove.com/blog/category/altnet), [altnetconf](https://osherove.com/blog/category/altnetconf)

**Historical article** · Originally published October 21, 2007; technical details may be outdated.

This is how much conversation there is on [the ALT.NET Mailing](http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/altnetconf/) list in the past couple of days:

![image](https://osherove.com/img/wb/net_blogs_rosherove_WindowsLiveWriter_The.NETMailinglistisagreatplacetohaveaco_12592_image_thumb.png)

Very good content, great people. It's been a while since I've had a list keep me so busy so long.

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    ### [Microsoft gets Design For Testability with new MVC framework for ASP.NET- Finally.](https://osherove.com/blog/2007/10/6/microsoft-gets-design-for-testability-with-new-mvc-framework.html)


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## About the author

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