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From: olsenc@kodiak.ee.washington.edu (Clint Olsen)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy,alt.os.linux,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
Subject: Re: a monthly FreeBSD magazine (and other *BSD's too)
Date: 21 Dec 1995 03:04:08 GMT
Organization: University of Washington, Seattle
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In article <4b7jrt$86s@agate.berkeley.edu>,
Nick Kralevich <nickkral@parker.EECS.Berkeley.EDU> wrote:
>In article <4b7a0d$1t5@park.uvsc.edu>,
>Terry Lambert  <terry@lambert.org> wrote:
>>that you are so ignorant as to not be aware of its primary channel
>>for communication?
>
>ftp.cdrom.com carries a lot more than FreeBSD and Linux stuff.  It also 
>has a number of Windows and DOS archives.  Why would the statistics
>for ftp.cdrom.com be posted to freebsd-hackers, which is a mailing list
>for developers in FreeBSD.  The concept I am having a difficult time
>grasping is the one where ftp.cdrom.com == FreeBSD, since ftp.cdrom.com
                           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>has much more material on it than just FreeBSD.

I don't have a hard time grasping this since ftp.cdrom.com IS a FreeBSD
machine.

-Clint