From owner-freebsd-chat Sat Jun 10 16:38:15 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mta03-svc.ntlworld.com (mta03-svc.ntlworld.com [62.253.162.43]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D618237B7DD for ; Sat, 10 Jun 2000 16:38:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org) Received: from parish.my.domain ([62.253.88.75]) by mta03-svc.ntlworld.com (InterMail vM.4.01.02.27 201-229-119-110) with ESMTP id <20000610233811.MJGW290.mta03-svc.ntlworld.com@parish.my.domain>; Sun, 11 Jun 2000 00:38:11 +0100 Received: (from mark@localhost) by parish.my.domain (8.9.3/8.9.3) id AAA00888; Sun, 11 Jun 2000 00:38:09 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from mark) Date: Sun, 11 Jun 2000 00:38:09 +0100 From: Mark Ovens To: Jamie Jones Cc: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: The Power to Serve England Message-ID: <20000611003809.G233@parish> References: <20000610235213.A233@parish> <200006102300.AAA34070@bishopston.net> <20000611001753.D233@parish> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <20000611001753.D233@parish>; from mark@freebsd-uk.eu.org on Sun, Jun 11, 2000 at 12:17:53AM +0100 Organization: Total lack of Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sun, Jun 11, 2000 at 12:17:53AM +0100, Mark Ovens wrote: > [snip] > The following, from you original post sounded political to me: > > I can see no reason shouldn't be > under the uk heirarchy, or is this more a political than > geographical split ? > > [snip] > > What are so special about these groups, as to not include us > Welsh, or the Scots and Irish ? > Having actually visited the URL in the original post I find: There are MANY news hierarchies related to this part of the world including, but not limited to: uk.* scot.* wales.* ie.* (Ireland) ni.* (Northern Ireland) south-wales.* england.* is the newest hierarchy to join the fold. So perhaps I should be asking "What are so special about the scot.* and wales.* groups, as to not include we English" [ducks and runs] :) -- Want a lean, mean, computing machine? Get rid of that excess FAT - install FreeBSD ________________________________________________________________ FreeBSD - The Power To Serve http://www.freebsd.org My Webpage http://ukug.uk.freebsd.org/~mark/ mailto:mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org http://www.radan.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message