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From: allard@isi.edu (Dennis Allard)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: 386bsd -- The New Newsgroup
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Date: 10 Sep 92 23:21:27 GMT
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bdale@col.hp.com (Bdale Garbee) writes:
> wjolitz@soda.berkeley.edu (William F. Jolitz) writes:
> > 	comp.os.386bsd		(general questions and trivia)
> > 	comp.os.386bsd.kernel	(discussion on kernel content/structure)
> >     ...

> I'd be more interested in seeing a single comp.os.386bsd ...

Ditto.

> Good threaded user interfaces make keeping discussions together easy, ...

Indeed.

And (why not bring it up here), the future will see network server
based newsreaders where a newsreader will just import article headers
and only import an entire article when it is read.  There is more than
one way to skin the bandwidth cat.  (If anyone is working on this, or
interested in talking about it, please contact me)

Dennis Allard
allard@isi.edu