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To: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
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Subject: Re: News group split time? 
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Date: Sun, 18 Feb 1996 03:07:21 -0600
From: Jon Loeliger <jdl@jdl.com>
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So, like Terry Lambert was saying to me just the other day:
> Is it time to reorg the group?
> 
> I vote for comp.freebsd.* or comp.bsd.freebsd.*...

Oh man!  What an opportunity!  Go for the total gusto 
and propose our own root level hierarchy!  FSF did it.

    freebsd.*

Coming soon to a news server near you,
jdl

PS -- OK, how about comp.freebsd.* instead.
      And just what would the "*" expand to here?
      kernel, ports, hackers, misc, philosophy, ban-linux :-) ?