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- From: dschieb@muse.cv.nrao.edu (Darrell Schiebel)
- Subject: Re: AT&T Long Distance Boycott (was: BNR2SS, Mach, and The Lawsuit)
- In-Reply-To: bryan@uhura1.uucp's message of 1 Sep 92 09: 05:48 GMT
- Message-ID: <DSCHIEB.92Sep1155327@muse.cv.nrao.edu>
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- <UecUwQO00iUz81B9Qv@andrew.cmu.edu> <1992Sep1.090548.8351@uhura1.uucp>
- Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 20:53:27 GMT
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- In article <1992Sep1.090548.8351@uhura1.uucp> bryan@uhura1.uucp (Bryan Curnutt) writes:
- In article <UecUwQO00iUz81B9Qv@andrew.cmu.edu> sean+@andrew.cmu.edu (Sean McLinden) writes:
- > >
- > >I suspect that the best way to approach this would be a general posting to
- > >the entire netnews community informing them, in a succinct manner, what is
- > >the situation, what are the issues and alternatives, and what is the
- > >recommended course of action (switching long distance carriers).
- > >
- > >[...] It should be
- > >posted to ALL newsgroups as it affects all of us.
- > It should NOT be posted to all newsgroups.
- > First, it does not affect "all of us." People reading news under
- > VMS, DOS, MacOS, and other non-UNIX operating systems may not care
- > about AT&T's legal actions regarding UNIX.
-
- While there are probably several groups which would NOT
- be appropriate to post news relating to Mach and the
- fate of BNR2, I would think most of the "comp.<whatever>"
- groups WOULD be appropriate places to post because this
- sort of software litigation has wide ranging effects on the
- entire industry.
-
- > Second, a huge number of newsgroups are clearly inappropriate for
- > this type of posting. Readers of rec.music.gdead or sci.aquaria
- > or even comp.sources.unix really don't need to have "Boycott AT&T"
- > messages shoved in their faces.
-
- Probably you are right here, these are probably not appropriate
- places to post a Mach/BNR2 message, and at any rate people
- who might be interested in computer related issue probably read
- one of the "comp" newsgroups.
-
- ... deleted netiquette commentary
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- > Bryan Curnutt
- > bryan%uhura1@uunet.uu.net
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