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- From: terry@cs.weber.edu (A Wizard of Earth C)
- Subject: Re: time for comp.unix.bsd.386
- Message-ID: <1992Aug23.183947.3591@fcom.cc.utah.edu>
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- Organization: Weber State University (Ogden, UT)
- References: <34254@hoptoad.uucp> <1992Aug22.130620.15015@husc3.harvard.edu> <1992Aug23.052605.14262@uniwa.uwa.edu.au>
- Date: Sun, 23 Aug 92 18:39:47 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug23.052605.14262@uniwa.uwa.edu.au> comrade@uniwa.uwa.edu.au (Peter Cooper) writes:
- >jiu1@husc9.harvard.edu (Haibin Jiu) writes:
- >
- >>In article <34254@hoptoad.uucp> brendan@cygnus.com writes:
- >>>
- >>>Any reason not to start a discussion for creating comp.unix.bsd.386?
- >>>(For the many people who are interested in geeric BSD issues, but
- >>>could care less about device drivers in 386BSD, etc.)
- >
- >>Someone please do this!!!!!! People like me who use true 4.xBSD
- >>UNIX need this group to talk about issues that concern 4.xBSD in
- >>general. There has been just too much on 386BSD (which I abandoned
- >
- >It looks to me like it's time. Will c.u.bsd still have enough traffic
- >to make it a viable group? I think so. Discussions on the 68k port,
- >stuff on NET/2 (including the pending legal action) should keep it
- >ticking along - and I think quite a few people will be happy NOT to have
- >to skip the 386BSD/BSDI386-related discussions. I can't understand why,
- >though ;-)
-
- I strongly disagree here! It took me a *long* time to get comp.unix.bsd
- and alt.suit.att-bsdi to even be propagated to this site (I used to stay
- after work *real* late one time a week to read and post to it). I don't
- think I'd like another 3 month delay! I'm sure others are in the same
- boat, and probably don't have a secondary site to save them; there is an
- inherent propagation delay in the formation of new groups.
-
- I personally don't have problems with 68K porting discussions in this group,
- and the legal action already has it's own group, alt.suit.att-bsdi. If you
- aren't already getting this one, it's a good argument against accepting a
- rename based propagation delay. Perhaps a comp.unix.bsd.porting?
-
- This leaves the net2 stuff, which is only out in beta right now, so it leaves
- us some time. *IF* we truly think that comp.unix.bsd is inappropriate for
- 386bsd, perhaps we should create the group and manditorily crosspost. I
- believe the group that would be suggested by Bill and Lynne would be
- "comp.os.bsd" to avoid trademark entanglement such as that in BSDI's ad
- (this is what they have suggested before).
-
-
- Terry Lambert
- terry_lambert@gateway.novell.com
- terry@icarus.weber.edu
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- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present
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