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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
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From: pauls@icecreambar.css.itd.umich.edu (Paul Southworth)
Subject: Re: 386bsd -- The New Newsgroup
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Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 14:33:23 GMT
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Holger Veit writes
[...]
| You should not multiply entities unless it is absolutely necessary
| (free translation of William of Occam's well-known statement). 
| 
| We have considerably high traffic on 'I cannot boot with my  
configuration', say
| 'newbie' stuff. Since I follow this group quite long, I would have an  
idea
| where to post such a question, but if I were a beginner and desperate 
| because of 386bsd had just cleaned my whole disk, I would perhaps ignore 
| the different groups and send my mail to all of them, perhaps to find 
| one who can answer.

I see your point.  Thanks to everyone who responded to my original  
posting.  I guess what I am most interested in is getting at least one  
exclusive 386BSD group going.  It seems to me that perhaps two or three  
would be better, but I am most concerned with actually getting this thing  
off the ground.  Preferably soon, but without undue rush.

I'm not stuck on the names of any of these, so don't debate them with me.   
This is what I would propose if I were to do it today:

comp.os.386bsd                <-- misc discussion and coordination
comp.os.386bsd.install        <-- slightly nicer term for newbie
comp.os.386bsd.development    <-- patches, bugs, ports, new software

I think those are pretty self-explanatory.