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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.apps:1673 comp.os.386bsd.development:3188 comp.os.386bsd.misc:5353 comp.unix.bsd:16143 Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.apps,comp.os.386bsd.development,comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!news.mtu.edu!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!news.sprintlink.net!emerald.oz.net!news.worldcom.com!news.sesqui.net!uuneo.neosoft.com!bonkers.taronga.com!peter From: peter@bonkers.taronga.com (Peter da Silva) Subject: Re: Cannons Away: Vote NO on newsgroup reformation. Organization: Taronga Park BBS Message-ID: <D3vzut.rp@bonkers.taronga.com> References: <D3o5Ew.8x2@nbn.com> <kaleb.792415474@fedora.x.org> <3hgnh4$ff7@mudraker.mtholyoke.edu> <kaleb.792457691@exalt> Date: Sun, 12 Feb 1995 12:25:40 GMT Lines: 21 In article <kaleb.792457691@exalt>, Kaleb KEITHLEY <kaleb@x.org> wrote: >It's pretty simple really. comp.unix.bsd already exists. BSD is >recognized, by all the people who really count anyway, as a variant >or derivative of the UNIX operating system. "All the people who really count" unfortunately aren't programmers, they are lawyers. And *luckily* they don't consider BSD to be a derivitive of UNIX. It's just sheer idiocy to attract their attention by yelling otherwise. >And, as has been explained before, the Usenet cabal *won't* allow >redundant hierarchies. The Usenet Cabal has a good deal less power than you credit them with. Not to mention that there is *already* a comp.os.386bsd hierarchy that is *already* in comp.os, and *already* more closely related to the topic at hand than comp.unix.bsd is. >Next time around, you do it. I tried to.