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From: kaleb@fedora.x.org (Kaleb KEITHLEY)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: Put the Cannons Away: Vote YES on newsgroup reformation.
Date: 12 Feb 95 10:52:15 GMT
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Terry Lambert <terry@cs.weber.edu> writes:

>In the spirit of "do something broken now and fix it later", the
>simplest change is renaming "386bsd" to "bsd".

You continue to disregard the simple fact that the Usenet cabal won't 
allow this. They simply will not allow comp.unix.bsd and comp.os.bsd 
to exist at the same time. Period. Call them stupid -- many have -- but
I tried at the outset to get that and they declined to post the RFD
until I did things their way.

>Yes, it's a stupid idea.  Doing something broken thinking you can
>fix it later (much like the 'comp.unix' heirarchy itself) always
>*is* a stupid idea.

Not necessarily. Sometimes it's better to do something, even if there
are things wrong with it, than nothing, and I think this is one of those
times.

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Kaleb KEITHLEY