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Xref: sserve comp.unix.bsd:2106 news.groups:47984 Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!uunet!dtix!mimsy!ra!atkinson From: atkinson@itd.nrl.navy.mil (Randall Atkinson) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd,news.groups Subject: Re: yet another BSD newsgroup proposal (:-( Message-ID: <3060@ra.nrl.navy.mil> Date: 20 Jul 92 00:25:47 GMT References: <14cuvtINN568@agate.berkeley.edu> Sender: usenet@ra.nrl.navy.mil Followup-To: news.groups Organization: Naval Research Laboratory, DC Lines: 30 > On the INTERNET/USENET, we are hoping to establish our >own newsgroup called "comp.os.386bsd". This newsgroup would >reside alongside the "comp.os.mach" and "comp.os.linux" >newsgroups. Already there are over 100,000 copies of Release >0.0, and we hope to add to this number with the new and >improved Release 0.1. Please help us to establish this >newsgroup devoted to the "freely available" 386BSD system, >by asking your news coordinator to subscribe to it. We do >not recommend using comp.unix.bsd, since 386BSD, like linux >and mach, is not a "comp.unix" system. Folks, BSD _is_ more of a UNIX (tm)-like system than A WHOLE LOT of the existing comp.unix.* newsgroups. Creating comp.os.386bsd is nonsensical. I could see creating comp.unix.bsd.386 and renaming comp.unix.bsd to comp.unix.bsd.misc, but the above proposal for comp.os.386bsd flies in the face of USENET custom and practice. Moreover, short of moderating the newsgroup to prevent it, one should fully expect that articles about BSDI's 386 product will be posted to the proposed new newsgroup (regardless of name) simply because a large chunk of the net users don't pay much attention to what they are doing. I understand that my words aren't politically correct to some, but a reality check is very much in order here. To be frank, the amount of political religion in this newsgroup is unusually high even be USENET standards. Maybe creating talk.politics.bsd would be more in order just to move it elsewhere.