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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.development:2637 comp.os.linux.development:17699 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!swrinde!news.uh.edu!moocow.cs.uh.edu!wjin From: wjin@moocow.cs.uh.edu (Woody Jin) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.development,comp.os.linux.development Subject: Proposal : New newsgroup (Re: We a FAQ: Linux vs. *BSD!!!) Date: 17 Oct 1994 20:58:13 GMT Organization: University of Houston Lines: 27 Message-ID: <37uoh5$nlu@masala.cc.uh.edu> References: <jmonroyCxLro2.IF6@netcom.com> <JKH.94Oct13042845@freefall.cdrom.com> <37mflh$f6s@unix1.cc.uop.edu> <37o1sb$444@quagga.ru.ac.za> NNTP-Posting-Host: moocow.cs.uh.edu Hi. Since there is practically no solution of the newbies' question of "Which is better, A or B ?", how about creating a new newsgroup, say, "comp.os.free-unices.dicuss" or something like that ? Whenever a newbie comes and ask the similar question, we just refer to the newsgroup. One caveat is that the news group will tend to be "comp.os.free-unices.flame", but at least flames wars in *bsd / *linux* newsgroups can be filtered out into that newsgroup. Also, if there are enough people who want to constructive, the newsgroup can be used as a communication medium among the different unices' developers, for getting recent informations of other unices and thus improving their own unix. I am sure that if you just leave as it is now, the flame wars won't stop. Newbies come and will keep asking questions. Other semi-newbies will answer, and ... you know ... Just a thought ... -- Woody Jin