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Xref: sserve gnu.misc.discuss:6072 comp.org.eff.talk:8866 comp.unix.bsd:4411 comp.os.mach:2019 Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss,comp.org.eff.talk,comp.unix.bsd,comp.os.mach Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!uunet!haven.umd.edu!darwin.sura.net!uvaarpa!cv3.cv.nrao.edu!cv3.cv.nrao.edu!dschieb From: dschieb@muse.cv.nrao.edu (Darrell Schiebel) Subject: Re: AT&T Long Distance Boycott (was: BNR2SS, Mach, and The Lawsuit) In-Reply-To: bryan@uhura1.uucp's message of 1 Sep 92 09: 05:48 GMT Message-ID: <DSCHIEB.92Sep1155327@muse.cv.nrao.edu> Sender: news@nrao.edu Organization: National Radio Astronomy Observatory References: <9070PB1w164w@underg.UUCP> <1992Aug29.235059.23907@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> <UecUwQO00iUz81B9Qv@andrew.cmu.edu> <1992Sep1.090548.8351@uhura1.uucp> Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 20:53:27 GMT Lines: 39 In article <1992Sep1.090548.8351@uhura1.uucp> bryan@uhura1.uucp (Bryan Curnutt) writes: In article <UecUwQO00iUz81B9Qv@andrew.cmu.edu> sean+@andrew.cmu.edu (Sean McLinden) writes: > > > >I suspect that the best way to approach this would be a general posting to > >the entire netnews community informing them, in a succinct manner, what is > >the situation, what are the issues and alternatives, and what is the > >recommended course of action (switching long distance carriers). > > > >[...] It should be > >posted to ALL newsgroups as it affects all of us. > It should NOT be posted to all newsgroups. > First, it does not affect "all of us." People reading news under > VMS, DOS, MacOS, and other non-UNIX operating systems may not care > about AT&T's legal actions regarding UNIX. While there are probably several groups which would NOT be appropriate to post news relating to Mach and the fate of BNR2, I would think most of the "comp.<whatever>" groups WOULD be appropriate places to post because this sort of software litigation has wide ranging effects on the entire industry. > Second, a huge number of newsgroups are clearly inappropriate for > this type of posting. Readers of rec.music.gdead or sci.aquaria > or even comp.sources.unix really don't need to have "Boycott AT&T" > messages shoved in their faces. Probably you are right here, these are probably not appropriate places to post a Mach/BNR2 message, and at any rate people who might be interested in computer related issue probably read one of the "comp" newsgroups. .... deleted netiquette commentary > Bryan Curnutt > bryan%uhura1@uunet.uu.net