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From: Peter Mutsaers <plm@xs4all.nl>
Subject: Re: FAQ no longer useful? (was: Re: [comp.unix.bsd] NetBSD, FreeBSD, and 386BSD (0.1) FAQ (Part 6 of 10))
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Date: Mon, 15 Jul 1996 21:28:59 GMT

>> On 14 Jul 1996 10:23:50 -0000, james@jraynard.demon.co.uk (James
>> Raynard) said:

    JR> In article <87enmgdsvi.fsf_-_@localhost.xs4all.nl>,
    JR> Peter Mutsaers  <plm@xs4all.nl> wrote:
    >> 
    >> This periodic posting costs me quite some UUCP downloads time,
    >> so I wonder whether it is really worthwhile for anyone to post it any
    >> longer to comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.announce.

    JR> You can get all the FreeBSD-specific announcements from the
    JR> freebsd-announce mailing list.

Yes, I know. But what I meant was that posting the generic BSD FAQ in
freebsd.announce is a waste of bandwidth because, as far as FreeBSD is
concerned, it is completely out of date.
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