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>=20
> That's no help at all to a bunch of machines that started life on
> 4.1 back in 2000 and will continue to run another 10-15 years=85

So you basically want a group of people to help
you maintain FreeBSD 4-STABLE for an indefinite
period of time?

There seem to be quite a few people still running
FreeBSD 4.x-based systems; I'm sure if you ask
around you could find a group of people to help
you with this.

Tim