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Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!uunet!usc!news From: merlin@neuro.usc.edu (merlin) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd,alt.suit.att-bsdi Subject: Keeping the AT&T discussion here (was: New group alt.suit.att-bsdi) Date: 25 Jul 1992 11:58:23 -0700 Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA Lines: 41 Sender: merlin@neuro.usc.edu (merlin) Distribution: world Message-ID: <l7392fINNf5@neuro.usc.edu> References: <14s61qINN8da@cs.widener.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: neuro.usc.edu >I created alt.suit.att-bsdi for ongoing discussion related to the suit >between AT&T and BSDI. For sanity's sake, could it please be moved there? Why don't you set your newsreader to ignore anything with 'AT&T' or 'suit' or 'license' in the subject line -- and leave the rest of the discussion in this newsgroup -- so people new to 386BSD and BSD/386 will have a clue about how AT&T/USL is trying to limit distribution of 4.3BSD-NET2 derived source codes. Moreover, I suspect this kind of discussion will markedly slow down until there is substantial new news available about the BSDI/AT&T lawsuit; at which point it would seem to me perhaps maybe relevant for users to renew the discussion. Frankly, if you want to do what you propose to do -- the correct way would seem to be to call for a vote -- and if the vote runs against discussing the AT&T lawsuit in the current (or future) BSD newsgroup then I am certain everyone would be happy to go along with you. The alternative of simply creating a new newsgroup and asking the people who have an individual interest in the matter -- and -- an interest in making new people aware of the seriousness of the matter seems to me to make it inappropriate to imply the discussion should be moved elsewhere to save a few readers the work of learning how to use their newsreader to skip a few headers. My vote would be to keep the discussion in the forum where it is likely to alert many people who could be affected by the result. But, I would second your feeling that we should certainly reduce the number of new postings on this matter until some substantial new information is available or until someone has some new point to make which has not been previously discussed. Best Regards, AJ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Alexander-James Annala Principal Investigator Neuroscience Image Analysis Network HEDCO Neuroscience Building, Fifth Floor University of Southern California University Park Los Angeles, CA 90089-2520 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------