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From: jkh@whisker.lotus.ie (Jordan K. Hubbard)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: <Proposal> Rename of the 386bsd groups
Date: 22 Jan 1994 12:35:09 GMT
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In-reply-to: jfieber@sophia.smith.edu's message of Fri, 21 Jan 1994 21:48:20 GMT

In article <1994Jan21.214820.10404@sophia.smith.edu> jfieber@sophia.smith.edu (J Fieber) writes:
   Some options:

   comp                    no arguments
   os/unix                 any opinions here?
   net2/net2bsd/bsdnet2    ???

There's another option:

   leave it alone	   ???


:-).  Seriously, I don't particularly want to see a wholly useless
flame war start up over what to rename the groups, and would be just
as happy if they stayed the way they are!  It ain't broke, so why fix
it?  Everybody has come to understand the current purpose of the
groups, and certainly wouldn't be any more clued by "bsdnet2" than
they would be "386bsd" if they're one of those who know nothing about
it at all, so if you're not doing the newbies any favors and you're
not helping the "old hands" then just who would the name change be
targeted at?

					Jordan
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(Jordan K Hubbard) jkh@violet.berkeley.edu, jkh@al.org, jkh@whisker.hubbard.ie
FreeBSD Core Team.               I *AM* the barnacle-encrusted bivalve of doom.