From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Feb 19 10:14:07 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id KAA13215 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 19 Feb 1996 10:14:07 -0800 (PST) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id KAA13210 for ; Mon, 19 Feb 1996 10:14:05 -0800 (PST) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id LAA13038; Mon, 19 Feb 1996 11:09:58 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199602191809.LAA13038@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: News group split time? To: phk@critter.tfs.com (Poul-Henning Kamp) Date: Mon, 19 Feb 1996 11:09:58 -0700 (MST) Cc: jkh@time.cdrom.com, terry@lambert.org, hackers@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <7560.824648072@critter.tfs.com> from "Poul-Henning Kamp" at Feb 18, 96 01:54:32 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > > Over the past week, the volume on comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc has been > > > eight times the volume of comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc and six times the > > > volume of comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc. > > > > > > Is it time to reorg the group? > > > > > > I vote for comp.freebsd.* or comp.bsd.freebsd.*... > > > > I'm not sure that anyone but a madman would embark upon a hierarchy > > change at this point, [...] > > Isn't that exactly the case ? :-) > > Terry, get a grip! Uh, you don't think that using the trademark in the news group right after the settlement that resulted in Net/2 being banned was the act of madmen? Personally, I think it was done for spite, and I'd be happy to have that behind us. Why does Linux get their own hierarchy? Are we not worthy? Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.