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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!network.ucsd.edu!usc!cs.utexas.edu!hellgate.utah.edu!fcom.cc.utah.edu!park.uvcc.edu!ns.novell.com!gateway.novell.com!thisbe.Eng.Sandy.Novell.COM!terry From: terry@thisbe.Eng.Sandy.Novell.COM (Terry Lambert) Subject: Re: why does nobody post faq (weekly) (shall I ?) Message-ID: <1992Sep3.172624.7280@gateway.novell.com> Keywords: faq? Sender: news@gateway.novell.com (NetNews) Nntp-Posting-Host: thisbe.eng.sandy.novell.com Organization: Novell NPD -- Sandy, UT References: <1992Sep3.034715.24514@utkux1.utk.edu> Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 17:26:24 GMT Lines: 55 In article <1992Sep3.034715.24514@utkux1.utk.edu> frank@martha.utcc.utk.edu (frank segner (phrank)) writes: >concerning the subject: >this could avoid some obsolete 'news-traffic'... >comments desired. There are several resons I haven't been doing this: A) Almost all of the major archives have mirrored agate.berkeley.edu; this means that if you know how to get 386BSD such that you will need the FAQ, you can get the FAQ. B) Lynne Jolitz contacted me via email about 2 weeks ago asking for the most recent copy. This implies that there might be "official" maintenance of it, and that unofficial postings would simply duplicate effort, in the best case, or that both would contain only partially intersecting data such that you had to have both of them, worst case. C) It's questionable whether or not a 386BSD FAQ would be welcome on comp.unix.bsd, given the recent discussion about splitting the group. D) At last count, I have 126 software projects, 4 physics projects, 12 writing projects (including the FAQ), and 3 electronic projects in the works, not including work, and Friday night is movie night 8-). Of these, the top ones are: 1) Work 2) Movie night 3) Reading netnews 4) Am39C93A SCSI driver 5) i82586 driver for PC-10 NAU 6) Boot code memory sizing rewrite 7) VFS interface rewrite 8) Making patch distributions for upload to agate 9) Noderunner (X loaderunner game) 10) 386BSD FAQ 11) Modelling of Relativistically Invariant P-P, N-P, N-N Collisions Resulting in Pair Production. ... So it at least makes the top 10 list. 8-). If anyone has current information on B or C, it *will* adjust the position of the FAQ in the list, though not above 4, since 3 is required to accumulate information for the FAQ. Terry Lambert terry_lambert@gateway.novell.com terry@icarus.weber.edu --- Disclaimer: Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.