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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.development:3072 comp.os.386bsd.misc:5070 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!newshost.marcam.com!news.mathworks.com!news2.near.net!public.x.org!kaleb From: kaleb@x.org (Kaleb KEITHLEY) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.development,comp.os.386bsd.misc Subject: Re: New newsgroups for 386 based or free unix Date: 24 Jan 95 16:56:39 GMT Organization: X Consortium Inc. Lines: 26 Message-ID: <rlogin.790966599@exalt> References: <lclee.51.000A72C9@lightside.com> <3g29sv$gip@nic.scruz.net> <3g37ao$ehc@solaris.cc.vt.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: exalt.x.org X-Newsreader: NN version 6.5.0 #5 briggs@puma.bevd.blacksburg.va.us (Allen Briggs) writes: >In article <3g29sv$gip@nic.scruz.net> >banshee@boing.resort.com (John Vinopal) writes: >>lclee@lightside.com (Larry Lee) writes: >>> comp.os.unix.netbsd.* >> >>The systems are very similar for the most part and lots of things apply >>to more than one. I don't think theres much of a need for more groups. >>Set up your kill file if you don't want to see linux posts, etc. >The 386bsd is very misleading for users of NetBSD and soon FreeBSD and >Linux that aren't using the x86 processors. I, for instance, use the >Macintosh and I know others that use the Amiga, Sun3, Sparc, DECstations, >pc532s, etc. I expect that a number of those people pass these groups >up because they have _386_bsd in the newsgroup name. Remember that *BSD >and Linux run on more than the x86 machines. An RFD for new *BSD newsgroups was posted in late November of last year. The CFV has been submitted to the UVV and I hope it will be posted to news.announce.newgroups fairly soon. -- Kaleb KEITHLEY