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From: risner@lexmark.com (James Risner)
Subject: Re: <Proposal> Rename of the 386bsd groups
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   In article <ETLDNCN.94Jan21133424@paddington.ericsson.se> etldncn@paddington.ericsson.se ( ) writes:
   >I have a suggestion. Why not rename all the comp.os.386bsd groups to
   >comp.unix.pc.net2bsd or comp.unix.net2bsd? 

For legal reasons, 386bsd, NetBSD, FreeBSD are NOT UNIX.
So they do not belong in comp.unix.  This is the reason 
comp.os.386bsd was name comp.os.

If you really want to get rid of the '386' how about
comp.os.pdbsd
comp.os.pc.bsd
comp.os.bsd.pc

risner
personally I don't mind the comp.os.386bsd tree.