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- From: jcargill@grilled.cs.wisc.edu (Jon Cargille)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
- Subject: Re: 386bsd -- The New Newsgroup <Summary>
- Message-ID: <1992Sep13.204309.8174@cs.wisc.edu>
- Date: 13 Sep 92 20:43:09 GMT
- References: <22376@venera.isi.edu> <1992Sep12.205451.15726@terminator.cc.umich.edu> <1992Sep12.232207.25719@cs.sfu.ca>
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- In article <1992Sep12.232207.25719@cs.sfu.ca> bremner@cs.sfu.ca (David Bremner) writes:
- >
- >I'm not sure whether or not two separate newsgroups are needed for bsd386
- >and 386/bsd. I realize there are political considerations here, but
- >comp.unix.pc-clone.32bit ( or whatever it is called ) serves about
- >6 major flavours of SYS V based unix on intel processors.
- >
-
- There are reasons other then political. How about the fact that most
- 386bsd users won't want to read about bsd/386, *much* *less* some
- SYSV-based intel unix?
-
- >In a soundbite
- >
- > comp.os.bsd
- > comp.os.bsd.pc-clone
- >
- >Which would cover bsd386, 386/bsd, mach-386, BNRSS-386, (the last two
- >only in regard to their BSD nature, not their mach nature)
- >
-
- Hate it, hate it, hate it. Why should people have to read about
- systems they're not interested it, just because they're (possibly)
- similar?
-
- By this reasoning, we could just do away with newgroups altogether,
- and revert to one top-level group called 'news'. If everyone had
- *really* nifty threaded newsreaders, it might work... Not!
-
- Let's not throw things together that don't naturally share readership,
- just to satisfy an urge to "order" the namespace.
-
- Jon
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