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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!ihnp4.ucsd.edu!agate!nickkral From: nickkral@america.CS.Berkeley.EDU (Nick Kralevich) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Linux vs. FreeBSD ... Followup-To: poster Date: 14 May 1996 00:19:35 GMT Organization: Electrical Engineering Computer Science Department, University of California at Berkeley Lines: 29 Message-ID: <4n8jin$htl@agate.berkeley.edu> References: <3188C1E2.45AE@onramp.net> <4mr1pk$cdi@dyson.iquest.net> <4n0bh1$br0@agate.berkeley.edu> <4n7mp1$217@jraynard.demon.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: america.cs.berkeley.edu In article <4n7mp1$217@jraynard.demon.co.uk>, James Raynard <james@jraynard.demon.co.uk> wrote: >What makes you think this kind of discussion is any more welcome in >comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc? > ^^^^ The purpose of a *.misc group is to cover any topic that isn't directly covered by another newsgroup. John posted an advocacy issue to comp.os.linux.misc, when comp.os.linux.advocacy already exists. John was off topic in the newsgroup he added. There are only two newsgroup is the comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.* hierarchy. They are comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc and comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.announce. This topic is not appropriate for the announce newsgroup, so the only other newsgroup left is comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc. It may be unwelcomed, but it's not off topic. Killfiles are useful for this reason. My apologizes to those who don't want to hear advocacy in the FreeBSD newsgroup. Take care, -- Nick Kralevich nickkral@cory.eecs.berkeley.edu