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From: deraadt@theos.com (Theo de Raadt)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,news.groups
Subject: Re: Why you should not vote NO for comp.unix.bsd.openbsd
Date: 13 Feb 1997 10:02:08 GMT
Organization: Theo Ports Kernels For Fun And Profit
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In-reply-to: Russ Allbery's message of 12 Feb 1997 21:12:45 -0800
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In article <qum914tmgqa.fsf@cyclone.stanford.edu> Russ Allbery <rra@cs.stanford.edu> writes:
   The only unfortunate thing about
   the entire situation is that no one noticed the newsgroups which should
   have obviously been included in the original RFD crossposting until later
   on in the process.

These are the issues that caused the fuss:

1) David Lawrence specifically requested that the CFV postings be sent
   to the netbsd newsgroups, when the RFD postings had not.

2) The CFV (as written by a proponent) does not list the netbsd groups
   as areas where the articles are cross-posted

3) The proponents were not consulted or informed of these changes.  And
   I guess that is also the reason for (2) above

Those three irregularities are all anyone was really worried about.
Nothing more.  Not really very important issues compared to the larger
issue of people voting `for the improvement of usenet' (cough, cough ;-)

Really, I've nothing more to say about it.  It's that simple.
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