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From: cgd@eden.CS.Berkeley.EDU (Chris G. Demetriou)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc
Subject: Re: WILL ???BSD DIE?
Date: 2 Nov 93 12:58:48
Organization: Kernel Hackers 'r' Us
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In-reply-to: dmuntz@quip.eecs.umich.edu's message of 2 Nov 1993 17:11:42 GMT
In article <2b64ce$l4o@zip.eecs.umich.edu> dmuntz@quip.eecs.umich.edu (Dan Muntz) writes:
=>Along this line, I find remarks by some of the devlopers
=>to the effect that 'bugs/comments/etc. should be sent to the mailing lists,
=>because we're to busy to keep up with the newgroups' to be completely lame.
=>Newsgroups are obviously the way to go if you want to get "the public"
=>involved. If you don't want the unwashed masses messing with your code,
=>perhaps it will just go the way of 386bsd.
it might be 'lame,' but a person *can't* do it all.
(i'd also dispute that 'newsgroups are obviously the way to go to get
"the public" involved... they're certainly the way to go to waste
people's disk space... 8-)
My life, in a nutshell:
(1) Sleep (8 hours a day)
(2) eat, shower, etc. (2 hours a day)
(3) Full time student (2-10 hours per day)
(4) email (2-3 hours per day)
that leaves me with between 0 and 11 hours to spend on:
(5) girlfriend
(6) hacking on netbsd
(7) "other miscellaneous stuff." (maybe, laundry! 8-)
(8) reading news
I agree, in an ideal world, those working on NetBSD would have
plenty of time to read news and answer people's questions; we try
as it is.
But the fact is, we've all got 'other stuff to do', some of which is
better than hacking. 8-)
It simply boils down to the fact that there are only so many hours
in a day.
As an aside: what's the difference between a mailing list and a newsgroup?
the only one i can think of is that a whole lot of sites receive news,
whereas only interested parties receive mailing list mail.
anybody can subscribe to nearly any of the NetBSD mailing lists.
(to do so, or to find out which ones are available, mail
majordomo@sun-lamp.berkeley.edu)
chris
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chris g. demetriou cgd@cs.berkeley.edu
smarter than your average clam.