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- From: cproto@marsh.cs.curtin.edu.au (Computer Protocol)
- Subject: Re: 386bsd -- The New Newsgroup
- Message-ID: <cproto.716042678@marsh>
- Keywords: newsgroup 386bsd news group
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- Organization: Curtin University of Technology
- References: <1992Sep8.140141.10371@terminator.cc.umich.edu> <18iprpINNg6e@agate.berkeley.edu> <1992Sep8.200625.2894@socrates.umd.edu> <veit.716026274@du9ds3>
- Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 12:44:38 GMT
- Lines: 60
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- veit@du9ds3.uni-duisburg.de (Holger Veit) writes:
-
- >In <1992Sep8.200625.2894@socrates.umd.edu> john@socrates.umd.edu (John VanAntwerp) writes:
-
- >>In article <18iprpINNg6e@agate.berkeley.edu> wjolitz@soda.berkeley.edu (William F. Jolitz) writes:
- >>>
- >>>As per Bill's suggestion, here's a breakdown of some of the suggested
- >>>topics and groups:
- >>>
- >>> comp.os.386bsd (general questions and trivia)
- >>> comp.os.386bsd.kernel (discussion on kernel content/structure)
- >>> comp.os.386bsd.windows (ditto, on windowing systems like X)
- >>> comp.os.386bsd.sharedlib (shared library and programming environment)
- >>> comp.os.386bsd.net (networking topics)
- >>> comp.os.386bsd.bugs (new bugs)
- >>> comp.os.386bsd.ann (announcements, fixes, additions)
-
- >>I think that this is a fine set of newsgroups...
-
- >> John
-
- >You should not multiply entities unless it is absolutely necessary
- >(free translation of William of Occam's well-known statement).
-
- >We have considerably high traffic on 'I cannot boot with my configuration', say
- >'newbie' stuff. Since I follow this group quite long, I would have an idea
- >where to post such a question, but if I were a beginner and desperate
- >because of 386bsd had just cleaned my whole disk, I would perhaps ignore
- >the different groups and send my mail to all of them, perhaps to find
- >one who can answer.
-
- >I haven't seen much on shared libraries yet in this group, so why sharedlib.
- >Or did I misunderstand this, because you mean a common library (archive) for
- >all who want to share software? This might be called 'comp.os.386bsd.contrib'.
-
- >I if found just a bug in /sys/kern/kern_execve.c, should I post to
- >comp.os.386bsd.bugs or c.o.3.kernel, just because my detected effects could be
- >for interest for the latter group as well? And if I fixed the bug on the fly,
- >should I also send it to c.o.3.ann? Similiar things might happen with
- >network related things.
-
- >BTW, when the AT&T/USL or similiar junk should come up again, where will it
- >go? I assume from the previous stories (before alt.suit-bsdi ?) was created,
- >the articles were scattered around everything that had *.unix.* in its name.
-
- >*** I am not against a new group comp.os.386bsd, but why should it be a whole
- >*** tree directly? Confusion will be built-in.
-
- I couldn't agree more. I don't even see the need to change the current
- status quo. All traffic in this newsgroup is related to 386bsd (forget
- the 0.001% exceptions). Its seems completely crazy to disturb something
- which works well (don't fix something which ain't broken). So please
- leave things as they are - but at least please please please don't
- create 20 different newsgroups all with duplicate messages (people will
- crosspost). There are plenty of us who dial in from home with 1200 or
- 2400 b/s and read mail and news. So it's a real pain having to sift
- through the some message several times.
-
- Regards - Tibor Sashegyi (cproto@abel.cs.curtin.edu.au)
-
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