From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Feb 18 02:51:46 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id CAA08153 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 18 Feb 1996 02:51:46 -0800 (PST) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id CAA08147 for ; Sun, 18 Feb 1996 02:51:42 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id LAA16364 for ; Sun, 18 Feb 1996 11:51:40 +0100 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id LAA03559 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Sun, 18 Feb 1996 11:51:40 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.3/8.6.9) id LAA06542 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Sun, 18 Feb 1996 11:37:14 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199602181037.LAA06542@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: News group split time? To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Date: Sun, 18 Feb 1996 11:37:13 +0100 (MET) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <15311.824631534@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Feb 18, 96 00:18:54 am X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME8a] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk As Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > > Is it time to reorg the group? > > > > I vote for comp.freebsd.* or comp.bsd.freebsd.*... Terry's favorite horse. :) No Terry, we are not UNIX(trashmark), but nevertheless, people used to categorize BSD as "unix" (not in capitals). > I'm not sure that anyone but a madman would embark upon a hierarchy > change at this point, but it certainly wouldn't be out of the question > to discuss the creation of additional categories. .{questions,development} > anyone? .misc is 99 % .questions .development is unneeded since development happens in mailing lists, not in Usenet. I'm all for a split, but judging from the traffic there, and from our experience with the comp.os.386bsd hierarchy, i have yet to see a good way that would also be accepted by the Usenet users (since they have to decide where to post). A split that just causes everybody to crosspost his question into 2 groups doesn't gain us anything. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)